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WORKS AND WONDERS 



REV. EMERSON ANDREWS, A.B., A. M., 

EVANGELIST, 

AUTHOR OF " REVIVAL SERMONS," " REVIVAL SONGS," " YOUTH'S PICTURE-SERMONS,' 

"TRAVELS IN BIBLE LANDS," "LIVING LIFE," ETC. 



FIRST EDITION. 



'A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold." — Solomon. 
'Ask in faith, and you shall receive." — Christ. 
'Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift 1" — Paul. 



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BOSTON: 
JAMES H. EARLE, PUBLISHER, 

NO. 20 HAWLEY STREET. 
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Copyright, 1880, 
By James H. Earle, 



Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 
No. 4 Pearl Street. 



PREFACE 



What, " Pearls of Worlds "? Yea, God speaks : 
His works and wonders, how mighty and sublime ! 
His word and Spirit, so gracious and divine ! Jeho- 
vah's revelations are great and worthy, broad as the 
universe, and lasting as eternity. (Ps. xix. ; Isa. 
lv. ; Rev. xxii.) Oh, let the church and world give 
audience ! Behold, God, creation, providence ! 
Now take the Bible-key and Spirit-guide, with mind 
and heart all pure by grace. Enter the closet and 
study of wisdom ; search the treasures of knowl- 
edge ; examine the museums and gardens of nature ; 
patronize the bazars of truth, virtue, and honesty ; 
walk the paths of peace, purity, and temperance ; 
share the waters of life and bread of salvation ; 
mount the watch-tower of love, faith, hope, patience, 
and good works ; gaze upon the infinite panorama 
of earth, heaven, and eternity, and exclaim, "What 
hath God wrought!" "One Lord, one Faith, one 
Baptism ! " Behold God, his attributes, the sacred 
Trinity, the Father, Son, and Spirit ! Oh, " the un- 

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speakable gift ! " How do we read Jehovah's gra- 
cious, immutable will, plans, purposes, the atone- 
ment, and endowments? Or our manifold duties, 
privileges, destinies, and rewards? Truly, "the 
choicest gifts and greatest blessings are all for the 
righteous, the children of God, heirs and joint heirs 
with Christ, inheritors of the kingdom of God." 
Nay, our Saviour -King is rich, gracious, and faith- 
ful, who fully endows his bride and children with 
pearls of great price; of wisdom, wealth, and wel- 
come for mansions of glory, and the wedding-sup- 
per of the Lamb. Thus you see we have gleaned 
and gathered from many sources " apples of gold," 
great and small, "in caskets of silver." If God 
uses the greatest, and guards the least of his works, 
let us not despise the day of small things, nor the 
great. How minutes make years ; drops make 
oceans ; atoms make worlds ; acorns make trees ; 
and stars light up the firmament. So children 
make adults, and by grace become Christians, gems 
and jewels for the crown of Christ in glory for ever. 
Dear reader and friend, we now present you this 
book, "Pearls of Worlds," or "Words and Won- 
ders," as an index-rerum, alabaster-box, a fund, 
cabinet, souvenir and lacon of pith and marrow, or 
a diadem with diamonds set. All of this is for you ; 
for your use, reference, and consolation ; not to 
please you, nor me, or any one but God ; and to 
promote your success and adornment. Please ac- 
cept the gift. These Pearls — unlike the trash, 



PREFACE. 



myths, or silly, crazing, vitiating novels — are life, 
food, health, zest, power, pleasure, and satiety, with 
love, knowledge, mirrors, telegraphs, rainbows, 
shadow and sunshine, to sustain and crown God's 
elect for glory. 

This is an age of inventions, revolution, change, 
unrest and progress ; an important era, a portentous 
epoch, an eventful crisis in the world's history and 
destiny. Myriads are seeking wealth, power, 
pleasure, joy, honor, or " patent," — the discovery 
of some " perpetual motion," to fill the " aching 
void," and gratify the innate desires of the immortal 
soul. Yet their prospecting, speculation, gambling, 
sporting, prodigality, intemperance, romance, vice, 
or crime never satisfies, no, nor ever will satisfy the 
natural or unnatural cravings of the mind and heart. 

Christians are experienced, competent witnesses, 
— credible. So they testify to the Bible religion 
as the Pearl of great price, with facts, faith, works, 
zeal, joy, and union of the Spirit. Here is a book 
of live thoughts that breathe, words that burn, 
works that glorify. Much here is far-fetched, 
dearly bought, precious, various, and glowing as 
the starry hosts ; or like the summer sun, to illumi- 
nate the moral heavens and the landscape ; to warm, 
beautify, refresh, vitalize, or fructify sentient, im- 
mortal man, while working in the vineyard of the 
Lord. 

What a feast of reason, joy of heart, and flow of 
soul ! You may freely share the whole, sifted, con- 



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densed, single or compound, original and select, 
grave or gay, adapted to young or old, white or col- 
ored, for time or eternity. Yea, to attract, amuse, 
instruct, illustrate, and edify ; to fit or suit various 
tastes, times, or stations for use and bliss. 

For half a century I have studied, traveled, writ- 
ten, preached, baptized, gathered facts and ideas, by 
sea and land, at home and abroad, all over Christen- 
dom, to enrich the mind, adorn the soul, and pre- 
pare you, with some fifty thousand converts for life, 
death, and heaven, — Eternity. Again, I present 
you this book, of multum in parvo: of mottoes, 
notes, rules, anecdotes, similes, essays, sermons, 
skeletons, facts, maxims, items, incidents, treatises, 
history, and statistics. 

My offering is made. May the Lord bless it, and 
help you to read, mark, use, do good, grow in 
grace, and be prepared to meet me in heaven, to 
hear the Lord say, "Well done." This is the aim, 
prayer, and hope of the author. 

Emerson Andrews. 

Saratoga, N. Y., 1880. 

P. S. — This work, and my revival works already 
published in numerous editions, I give, so far as I 
am able, to friends, freedmen, seamen, and all will- 
ing to serve God. E. A. 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 

I. Personal History, . 

II. Commendations, 

III. Vital Questions, . 

IV. Infidel Objections, 
V. Preaching Power, 

VI. Skeletons of Sermons, 

VII. Marriage and Divorce, 

VIII. Social Manners, 

IX. American Freedmen, 

X. Temperance, 

XI. Tobacco and Opium,. 

XII. Life and Health, . 

XIII. Revival Occasions, . 

XIV. Revival Incidents, . 
XV. Religious Events, . 

XVI. Hypotheses, 

XVII. Religious Anecdotes, 



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XVIII. 


Moral Anecdotes, . 






218 


XIX. 


Thrilling Anecdotes, 






230 


XX. 


Awful Anecdotes, . 






236 


XXI. 


Drinking Items, . • 






246 


XXII. 


Analogies, . . . 






255 


XXIII. 


Miscellany, . . • , 






265 


XXIV. 


Statistics, 






287 


XXV. 


Choice Mottoes, 






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XXVI. 


Maxims, .... 


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XXVII. 


Varieties, . . , 


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329 


XXVIII. 


Scintillations, 






343 


XXIX. 


The Soul's Rest, . . . 






355 


XXX. 


Christian Evidences, 






363 


XXXI. 


Directions to Converts * 






37o 


XXXII. 


Awakening, . 


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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 




CHAPTER I. 

PERSONAL HISTORY. 

WAS born of Mercy and James Andrews, 
||§j in Mansfield, Mass., November 24, 1806; 
but removed, at seventeen years, to Westmoreland, 
N. H., September, 1824. I was born again at the 
Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, N. H., No- 
vember, 1830. In September, 183 1, I entered 
college, and was much in Sunday schools and in 
revivals. I was graduated at Union College, under 
Dr. Eliphalet Nott, in Schenectady, N. Y., August, 
1834, an d next preached in Waterford and West 
Troy. I was ordained an Evangelist and Pastor of 
the regular Baptist Church in Lansingburg on the 
20th of April, 1836. I was pastor for two years in 
Rome, N. Y. I held -pastorates for five years, and 
mostly " revival meetings " ever since. I was a dele- 
gate to the " World's Temperance Convention " and 
to the "Evangelical Alliance," meeting in London, 

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England, August, 1846, and also visited Ireland, 
Scotland, and France. We were shipwrecked, 
mid-sea, in an equinoctial gale, on the 21st Septem- 
ber, and returned to Cork, Ireland, for repairs. 
After nine weeks, as preacher, and a guest of 
"Father Mathew," I embarked again for New 
York, and arrived after five weeks of rough pas- 
sage. I recommenced immediately my revival 
work. I next, in 1858 and 1859, visited France, 
Italy, Egypt, Greece, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Switzer- 
land, Germany, and England. On returning, I 
soon engaged in revivals. 

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. 

I was large of my age, healthy, robust, active, 
and gay. My old nurse has often told me that I 
" was never right ugly but once : She was left at home 
to care for me while my pious parents were gone to 
church. So she dressed up in her best, and walked 
out with me. I disobeyed her, wandered off, while 
she ran after, till I ran into a brook, where she 
dared not come at all, with her morocco shoes and 
fine stockings." There I was, but a three-year-old 
boy, barefooted, knee-deep in water, holding up my 
loose frock, and laughing at her. Then, she says, 
* I was really ugly, and made her mad ; but she 
pretty soon forgave and kissed me." I can yet well 
remember it, and other things of that age ; yea, how 



PERSONAL HISTORY. u 

the pastor and the doctor used to visit us, shake 
hands, read, teach, pray, or tell stories. 

At four years of age my father talked to me, when 
by ourselves, about God, prayer, and heaven. 

I was early and forward at school, play, and 
work ; and was soon efficient in the field, in busi- 
ness, at home, and abroad; and soon became, un- 
der my father's direction, a kind of boss in general 
at fourteen ; and was so for three years, when my 
father, two brothers, and two sisters, died. Then, 
with a widowed mother and three orphan sisters, I 
assisted in settling the estate, and carrying on the 
farm, and comforting the survivors of the family for 
a while, waiting for something or other to turn up to 
my advantage. The Lord directed me, 

A SHORT REVIEW. 

At the age of seventeen, I felt an abiding, keen 
sense of my ignorance, awkwardness, and sad defi- 
ciencies ; yet not discouraged, with strong individu- 
ality and consciousness of inherent capacity, I deter- 
mined to do my best to develop and discipline all my 
powers of body and mind. Accordingly, I attended 
common, grammar, writing, and dancing schools, 
respectively ; also the academy ; and so fitted for 
college. At the academy I was convicted afresh, 
under the plain preaching of Dr. Asahel Nettleton, 
the evangelist, on "quenching the Spirit;" and I 



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resolved to consecrate and utilize all my powers and 
property to God and his cause, forever. 

I was converted in the fall of 1830; entered 
Union College, under Dr. E. Nott, at Schenec- 
tad\', N. Y., took a high class-stand; preached, and 
enjoyed revivals, all through my course, before and 
after my baptism there. So I have been pastor and 
evangelist forty-six years. 

Strange, but true it is, I was often tired and dis- 
gusted with giddy, frivolous company, folly, and 
vain amusement in my early life, as " they did not 
pay, nor save." Yet, for social reasons, I indulged 
in them till I was constrained to halt. I had often 
left my young companions to converse with older 
ones and Christians. After firmly resolving to give 
up all for Christ and salvation, I soon found "peace 
in believing," and have, excepting short intervals, 
enjoyed a full soul ever since; yea, and good health 
with gracious success. I have ever desired true, 
choice, pure, or spiritual friends and companions, 
good society and books, or none. Yet I have min- 
istered to the wants of the low and lowest to save 
souls ; but not to herd with such. Since my con- 
version I have sought to be Christ-like, Paul or 
Apostle-like, as far as able. God has blessed me 
wonderfully, in body, food, purse, and soul ; and in 
winning souls to Christ, for fifty years past; and 
now, at seventy-four years, I bless God for life, 
health, prospects, and salvation ! 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 



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PERSONAL RULES. 

To seek first the Lord, souls, and the church. 
Labor with mind and body, as far as able. 
Lose no time, but utilize all the moments. 
Do to all men as I wish to be done by. 
Never defer a present duty till to-morrow. 
Never require others to do my own duties. 
Envy not, covet not, hurt not, but help others. 
Despise not the small, the poor, the needy. 
Never divert funds, nor spend before getting. 
Preserve order, method, and economy. 
Be polite, honest, punctual, and decided. 
Try and do the greatest amount of good. 
Deny myself no means of real comfort. 
Live respectably, plainly, frugally. 
Be active, watchful, earnest till death. 
Do all to glorify God, to bless, and be blest. 
Have ever a title clear to heaven. 
Conclude all in time for God and eternity. 
Labor for temperance, virtue, and health. 
Live for religion, revivals, and victory. 
Live daily, wisely, faithfully, and happily. 
Be, in all my doings, like true artists : to dash out 
anything that would eclipse Christ, or any of 
my Christian graces, or dear brethren. 
Never fret because of evil-doers, or events. 
Never complain, if unprized, or neglected. 



14 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Pity, not blame, the ignorant and impolite. 
Try to speak as slow again as I do ; keep calm. 



COVENANT RESOLVES. 

Recorded early after my Christian conversion. 

Resolved to consecrate myself and all to God. 
Read, study, pray much, and practice the Bible. 
Pray always in secret, and worship openly. 
Make but few social confidants or allies. 
Keep personal affairs to myself, or home. 
Abstain from all species of intemperance. 
Practice love, benevolence, and courtesy. 
Be prompt in duty, habits, and intercourse. 
Avoid envy, anger, hatred, lies, and scandal. 
Never covet, cheat, sponge, gamble, or misspend. 
Be humble, patient, peaceful, and enduring. 
Avoid debts, delay, fretting, and rashness. 
Shun narcotics, tobacco, opium, or intoxicants. 
Never be a miser, parasite, drone, or slave. 
Subdue carnal nature, and utilize my powers. 
Be industrious, economical, a good steward. 
Live daily as if to die and go to God's bar. 
Imitate Christ and apostles by the Spirit. 
Trust Christ for grace unto salvation. 
Submit to God, duty, trials, and rewards. 
Which may God grant, for Christ's sake. Amen, 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 15 



MY CHOSEN COSTUME. 

I mean to dress for health, comfort, and use. 
I wish so to dress as not to attract notice. 
Not to divert minds or lessen my word or deed. 
To help minds see a soul's worth, and Christ. 
To exemplify the new birth and a holy life. 

AUTO-DESCRIPTIVE VIEW. 

Truly, a somewhat robust, masculine, combative, 
resolute, and self-reliant being may coexist with a 
quick, irritable, and sanguine temperament, and a 
genuine, strong, hearty, self-sacrificing kindness. 
Instances abound in generals, statesmen, doctors, 
ministers, Christians, judges, rulers, heroes, on land 
and sea, in marked degrees. 

Being impatient and passionately anxious to con- 
tribute more rapidly to the benefit or relief of im- 
periled victims, suffering of want, disease, or 
violence, I cannot go around, or move lazily to the 
imperious calls, but rush on at once, directly to 
their rescue, or to guilty sinners. 

I feel a growing love, soul-vehemence, crushing 
responsibility, and agonizing anxiety to arrest lost 
sinners, and, by grace, to flash conviction through 
the minds, the heart, and souls, of all men ; and to 
save them from hell. Nay, I want to snatch and 
save exposed victims immediately, unwilling to lose 



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time, strength, or truth, and the life of immortal 
souls to their guilt and the pit. 

As a reformer or revivalist and preacher, I must 
be persistent, Godly-selfwilled, vigorous, tenacious, 
and persevering; finding pleasure, consolation, and 
thanksgiving in the Christian exercises, successes, 
and hopes, while my head, heart, body, soul, and 
spirit, unite in God. * 

MY MINISTRY. 

The Godly Miss Mary Lyon was right in saying : 
" When you choose your field of labor, go where no 
one else is willing to go. Nothing in the universe 
do I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or 
shall not do it." Thus I have tried to do for some 
forty-five years, as an evangelist, in twenty-five States 
of our Union ; in Canada, Ireland, England, France, 
Egypt, Greece, Snryrna, Jerusalem, and other 
places, on land and on ship, as God has directed. 
God has abundantly blessed my efforts in confirm- 
ing churches, strengthening Christians, in the con- 
version of sinners ; also in organizing the church at 
Brattleboro, Vermont ; and in raising up many other 
important interests, as noticed in my " Living Life." 

PULPIT PREPARATION. 

I study texts, commentaries, dictionaries, and 
other helps ; sketch the briefs, and print the same 



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on my mind ; and always deliver my sermons ex- 
tempore. I look above for help and happiness ; 
below, for duty and success ; to God, for daily grace 
to make my acquisitions and education to be so 
much sacred, vitalized knowledge and power for 
salvation. A Scotch woman well asked, "If a 
minister can't remember his own sermon, after a 
week's study, long enough to preach it without 
reading, how can he expect us to do so by hearing 
it only once ? " Let us stereotype the sermon on 
our own mind, and then on the minds of our hearers. 
I began preaching by using " briefs" no larger than a 
large business card, covered over on one side with 
the text, simple divisions, expressive words, and odd 
signs, or suggestions ; but these I laid aside long 
ago, as unnecessary, as by close study I get my 
brief ready ; and now it is engraved on my heart 
and memory, and soon it is all printed fresh and 
warm on the hearts and minds of my audience. 

For many years I have not written a word, line, 
or sign, to be used in the pulpit; but make due 
preparations, and trust God for the delivery. After- 
wards I write out some of them. 

The method of extempore speaking has some 
great advantages of liberty, power, and effect, as 
occasions arise; and the Holy Spirit, relied on, is 
given like Pentecost. But some ministers think 
otherwise. Some may memorize, or plagiarize, or 
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think it best to write and read sermons, and even 
pursue this course with some success ; but they never 
suspect nor know their loss nor that of their hearers. 
Oh, the sacred ministry ! No cause is so noble to 
a good man who understands it ! To preach the 
whole Gospel — to preach it fully, largely, faith- 
fully, solely, and continually ! Then you will wear 
a starry crown ! Thus, in choosing my preaching 
points, I have always tried to select the poor, weak, 
or neglected churches and villages, and give them 
the whole Gospel. 

FOREIGN PASSPORT DESCRIPTION. 

" Head large — seven inches and a half in diam- 
eter ; forehead high and wide ; eyes large, blue, 
and luminous, under a massive brow ; features reg- 
ular, square, and bold; nose stout and straight; 
complexion light and fair ; hair auburn, curly, and 
thick, even covered at fifty-three, and little gray 
(now 74, in 1880) ; chin large and dimpled ; mouth 
close and expressive." With this I traveled and 
preached, and was a " bearer of despatches " of the 
United States for Europe and Asia, which honored, 
saved, and profited me much. 

GENTLEMANSHIP. 

Said a good deacon of a New Jersey Baptist 
church, "Give the evangelist fifty dollars." "No," 



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said the kind pastor ; " Brother Andrews is a gentle- 
man, and if you give only forty, he will find no 
fault." 

CLEAN HABITS. 

A church committee calls on a family of good 
breeding and style, near the church, to secure enter- 
tainment for the evangelist during a revival meet- 
ing of weeks. "Well, does he use tobacco ?" they 
ask. "If he does, we could not take him on any 
account, nor have his example before our children." 
The committee replies : " Mr. Andrews is all right ; 
uses no tobacco; is cleanly; a gentleman." "We 
will very gladly entertain him," they heartily reply. 
And it is done. 

Mrs. Mercy Andrews, 

/ET. 94, 

Died April 4, 1875, Westmoreland, N. H. 

LINES BY 

Rev. Emerson Andrews, Evangelist. 

Farewell, dearest Mother, gone home to the blest, 
With Father and kindred, all Christians to rest ; 
The Lord of creation, the Savior we love, 
Has prayed, died, and risen, to crown us above. 

Fourscore and fourteen were the span of thy days, 
When carried by angels to mansions of praise, 
Thy Husband, ten Children, and myriads to greet, 
By faith, hope, and love, the " Old Story " repeat. 



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Thy word and example, more precious than gold, 
Engraved on thy children, and all thou couldst mold, 
As Savior and Spirit impressed on thy mind, 
God's image and jewels, for all humankind. 

Yea, children and pilgrims, with lamps full and bright, 
Hail Jesus, our Captain ! we're fit for the fight ; 
Though hot be the battle, in triumph we'll rise, 
O'er sin, death, and hell, with our Lord in the skies. 

As son, and a witness for Jesus and souls, 
I'll tell the " good news " to the nations and worlds ; 
I'll preach of salvation, by grace, all around, 
Till heaven and earth shall re-echo the sound. 

Lord, hasten the day, when the saints shall arise, 
Our " loved ones," with Jesus, come forth with the wise ; 
Blest " plaudit " to hear ! the " New Song " will we sing ; 
With Angels and Christians, crown Jesus, our King ! 

EPITAPH 

Of Mrs. Mercy Andrews. By E. A. 

Christ, our life and resurrection, 

Crown my hope, O victory ! 
Trust His grace for thy salvation, 

Shout in heaven, saints' jubilee ! 

OUR MAXIM. 

The history of our habits and life are truly the 
real clear history of our personal thoughts and reso- 
lutions. 

If we are destined to lead, originate, or rule, 
Providence and our bent or temper will ever lead us 
onward to the same. 



PERSONAL HISTORY. 21 

REPORT. 
From "The African Expositor" 

Messrs. Editors: "The African Expositor," 
as a periodical, is nice, truthful, varied, able, and 
spicy, and well adapted to do good to all races and 
colors. Like the Tree of Life, may it "bring forth 
fruit every month, and leaves for the healing of the 
nations." God speed the enterprise ! 

The New Year's " mass meeting," I think, was a 
great success, as Raleigh was the right place to 
hold it. 

The influence of such ministers' counsel, wisdom, 
speeches, resolutions, plans, and piety, must soon 
tell for good on the churches, and radiate, as the 
sunlight, all over the State and world. 

The Shaw University is a blessed institution, and 
the delight of many. I am thankful for what I saw, 
heard, and felt in the family and mansion of the 
worthy president, in the class-room, and in the 
chapel ; in revival meetings for weeks. Here 
mind, soul, and body — all are cared for. What 
a paragon ! The situation is beautiful, the build- 
ings superb, the grounds adorned and cultivated. 
The model president, " of all work," assisted by an 
able and busy corps of teachers, educates and 
stamps the faithful students for life, liberty, and 
happiness ; to do good to all mankind. 



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The Estey Female Seminary is a most beautiful 
school edifice ; a monumental gift of Deacon Jacob 
Estey. How doubly repaid would he feel if he 
could see the bevy of studious, happy girls here 
fitting, or fitted, to go forth and bless the world, as 
teachers, missionaries, helpers, or help-meets in life ! 
Truly, they do well in their classes, do honor to 
their teachers, and give promise for the future. 
God bless Brother Estey and the school ! 
Yours truly, 

Emerson Andrews, Evangelist. 

Goldsboro, N. C, Jan. 20, 1879. 

THE MASS MEETING. 
From '•'■The African Expositor." 

The largest gathering of colored ministers that 
ever met in North Carolina assembled in Raleigh, 
January 1st, 1879. The meeting had been called 
by the Baptist State Convention. 

Evening Session — First Day. 

The meeting was opened with a sermon by Rev. 
Emerson Andrews, of Boston, from Acts i. 8. The 
object of the sermon was to consider the third topic, 
"showing what means can be employed to better 
develop and strengthen the churches." The ser- 
mon was exhaustive and full of instruction. The 
following is a brief outline : 



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i. Endowments are common or special. 

2. Gifts are natural, spiritual, or acquired. 

3. Wisdom develops, testifies, and avails. 

I. Elements of power in the churches : 

1. Christ's love as our motive power. 

2. Divine Truth, natural and revealed. 

3. The Holy Spirit's endowments. 

4. Gospel Faith, living, active, effective. 

5. Unity of spirit, doctrine, and practice. 

6. The Cross — our soul, center, and circle. 

7. Prayer and .effort, earnest, effectual. 

II. Means to develop and increase the power: 

1. Examination, confession, reformation. 

2. Temperance, economy, godly zeal. 

3. Closet, family, and public worship. 

4. Our schools, academies, and colleges. 

5. Spiritual preaching and mission work. 

6. Discipline, system, care, and promptness. 

7. Revivals, ordinances, and Sunday schools. 

8. Witnessing for God at home and abroad. 



FAREWELL FOR A WHILE. 

For more than forty years I have conducted re- 
vival meetings both north and south ; and for the 
seven last winters, mostly with the colored race. I 
have also distributed among them many of my dif- 
ferent revival books, and expect to give them and 
others many more. 



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I am now writing at Saratoga Springs, Septem- 
ber ioth, but shall soon leave to get this work 
through the press. I shall, D. V., go south on 
another revival campaign. Pray for me, and strive 
to meet me at last in glory ! 

SPIRITUAL HUSBANDRY. 

Farming the heart is work for all — 
To plough our stubborn souls at call ; 
The Spirit kills the weeds of sin ; 
Christ's Gospel sows good seed to win. 

Let mellowed soil, by grace divine, 
With prayer of faith, make all things thine ; 
Go, gather sheaves while fields are white ; 
Salvation's day is shining bright. 

Instruments show their righteous use — 
No mind nor motives for 'abuse : 
Sure crops, all good, contentment, gain, 
Crown harvesters with godly fame. 

Revival bands, go, sowing truth — 
Reap converts full of joy and wealth — 
Hail dead to life — lost sinners, home — 
Well done ! In heaven with Jesus dine. 

E. Andrews. 



CHAPTER II. 

COMMENDATIONS. 

From Rev. Dr. Hill. {No. I.) 

To dear Bro. Backus, of Newark, N. J. 

ffi§ KNOW not whether your Second Church 
|*j has determined to resume public worship ; 
but if you have, I think that Bro. Andrews, with 
the blessing of God, might put you in good con- 
dition again. I know him, I think, well, and be- 
lieve him to be well calculated in education, talent, 
tact, and disposition, for Newark. 

If you mean, therefore, to try again, he will go 
ahead with you in the right way. 

Yours as ever, 

New York, Oct. i, 1840. BENJ. M. HlLL. 

From Rev. Dr. Hill. {No. 2.) 

Dear Brethren : The Rev. Emerson Andrews 
informs me that he is preparing to make a short tour 
in Europe during the ensuing winter, and I feel 
great pleasure in certifying to his excellent character 
as a gentleman, a Christian, and a minister of the 
gospel. As such, he has been extensively useful in 

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our country, and enjoys the respect and esteem of a 
large number of churches and ministers. May he 
be equally useful wherever he travels beyond sea, 
and enjoy the Christian courtesies and esteem of all 
with whom he becomes acquainted. 

Benj. M. Hill, 

Sec'y of Cor. of Am. Baptist Home Mission Society. 
New York, U. S. A., Oct. 28, 1858. 

From Rev. Dr. Burroivs (now of Kentucky, .) 

Dear Brethren : It gives me pleasure to intro- 
duce to any of my friends to whom this letter may 
be handed, the bearer, Rev. Emerson Andrews, 
with whom I have for years been intimate, and who 
is extensively known and much and deservedly be- 
loved through this region of country. Mr. Andrews 
has been engaged as an evangelist for several years, 
and in that capacity has done great good in building 
up weak churches, in conducting protracted meet- 
ings, and in indefatigably and faithfully preaching 
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I do most affectionately 
commend him to the confidence and fraternal love 
of the disciples of Christ wherever the providence 
of God may lead him, as a man of unimpeachable 
integrity, fervent piety, and as an able minister of 
the New Testament. 

(Signed) J. Lansing Burrows, 

Pastor of Broad St. Baptist Church. 
Philadelphia, Pa., April 28, 1845. 



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From Rev. JoJin Seger. 

AN ACROSTIC. 
1. 

E mbassador in Jesus' name, 

My Saviour's Gospel to proclaim; 

E ver on the wing I fry 

R ound the world, both far and nigh. 

11. 
S uccess attends me where I stay ; 
O 'er hills and dales I make my way ; 
N ot long in any place remain, 
A nd may I never preach in vain. 

in. 
N o home for Andrews can be found ; 
D estruction waits the world around. 
R un on he must, and loud proclaim 
E ternal life through Jesus' name. 

IV. 

When all my toils on earth shall cease, 
S weet thought, I shall go home in peace ; 
Sweet home, where I shall be at rest ! 
Sweet home ! sweet home of all the blest ! 



Dear brother, go ! count all but dross ; 
Unfurl the banner of the Cross ! 
Go wield the sword, and take the field ; 
Fight the good fight, and never yield ! 



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The war will not continue long ; 
You then will sing the conqueror's song. 
Be faithful to your Lord's command, 
Till you on Canaan's shore shall land ! 

Hightstown, N. J., Jan. I, 1855. JOHN SeGER. 

From Rev. William M. Jones. 

Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 1859. 

Dear Bro. Stillman : This will be handed you 
by Elder E. Andrews, a dear brother in Christ in 
the Baptist denomination, and an acquaintance of 
mine of former years, whom I esteem very highly, 
and whose praise is in the churches. He will be 
able to give you his ideas of Palestine and of Jeru- 
salem, and also how he finds me — -buried in my 
work, with the prospect of little immediate success ; 
but my trust is in Him whose promises fail not. 

You will be pleased to hear Bro. Andrews, and 
to see him. Yours truly, 

W. M. Jones. 

From Dr. Wychoff. 

American Bible Union Rooms, 

350 Broome Street, 
New York, October 28, 1858. 
Rev. J. G. Oncken, Hamburg, Germany. 

My dear Brother : The bearer, Rev. Emerson 
Andrews, is traveling for health and improvement. 
He is a brother in good standing, and has been in- 
strumental of great good among the churches of the 



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saints in this country. It affords me much pleasure 
to introduce him to you, although I believe that you 
have met in former years. 

Affectionately, 

William H. Wyckoff, 

Corresponding Secretary. 

From Rev. Dr. Brown (now of Japan). To Baptist Ministers 
in the Dominion of Canada. 

Dear Brethren : Learning that our friend and 
brother, Rev. Emerson Andrews, the Evangelist, — 
who has labored for many years with great success 
in revivals in the United States, — is about visiting 
the British Provinces, we cordially commend him to 
the confidence of all Baptist brethren with whom he 
may meet. Nathan Brown, 

New York, May 27, 1868. Editor Am. Baptist. 

From Rev. Dr. Malcom. (No. 1.) 

Very dear Brother Andrews : Your Revival 
Sermons are admirable. The ideas the readers will 
get from them will be blessed to thousands. 

Your life has been, and is, uncommon. God has 
gathered a host by you, as his instrument. The 
history and writings of such men are a precious 
legacy to posterity. Howard Malcom. 

From Rev. Dr. Malcom. (No. 2.) 

Dear Brother Andrews : How much good the 
colored ministers will gain by perusing your Revival 



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Sermons ! Oh, how much it will inspire their 
preaching ! I believe the good Spirit helped you 
in their composition. Howard Malcom. 

From Rev. Dr. Malcom. {No. 3.) 

Brother Andrews : Your Autobiography is first- 
rate. There is a great deal of history in it. 

H. M. 

From Rev. Dr. Malcom. (No. 4.) 

Very dear Brother Andrews : Your note 
dated Boston, May 1, 1874, ls before me. I am so 
glad to see your hand once more ! I have un- 
packed your box of books for the colored brethren, 
"to be distributed among them as I see fit." All 
the books you placed in my hands for distribution 
last year are given to pious students for the ministry, 
black and white, and were received with much joy. 

H. M. 

From Rev. Dr. Malcom. {No. 5.) 

My very dear Brother Andrews : What right 
have Christians to refuse to be God's stewards? or 
to pass all unused property over to others while able 
to occupy well? If God has given us some thou- 
sands more than we daily need, shall we intrust it to 
others, and shrink from our responsibilities? Let 
us take what God gives us, and disburse the income 
as we think right; and then, when we die, let heirs 



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and charity receive what we think God will approve. 
Death will end our stewardship ; and we must close 
it honestly. 

God bless you, dear and honored brother ! 
Yours in the great bond, 

Howard Malcom. 

Philadelphia, Penn., 1874. 

From Rev. Dr. Brown. 

For the orthodoxy of our paper, " The American 
Baptist," read Rev. Emerson Andrews' ground- 
down Revival Sermons. Nathan Brown, 

New York City, 1870. Editor. 

From Rev. Dr. Cushman. 

I regard Rev. Emerson Andrews as the most 
unexceptional Evangelist in the field. 

Robt. W. Cushman. 

Philadelphia, Penn. 

From Rev. Mr. Armstrong. 

Dear Brother Andrews : I thank you for the 
gift of your "Revival Sermons." They are real 
gems, full of sparkling thought. No threadbare, 
long-strung spider-webs ; but real pith and marrow. 
You have only to open the shell, and take the meat. 

Yours truly, 

A. Armstrong. 

Easton, Penn., 1871. 



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From Rev. Mr. Parker. (No. I.) 

Dear Brother Andrews : Your donation of 
books was received with many thanks. The books 
have pleased the students much. We want more. 

The " Revival Sermons " have opened up many 
new lines of thought. God will reward you for 
your kindness. Yours truly, 

B. G. Parker, 

For the Students. 
Crozer Seminary, Chester, Pa., 1874. 



From Rev. Mr. Par her. (No. 2.) 

Dear Brother Andrews : We feel very grate- 
ful to you for your books ; and read them with 
great interest. The " Revival Sermons " breathe 
the Spirit of Jesus. It requires just such to awaken 
men, and to bring them to Christ. Oh that the same 
spirit might characterize all of our preachers ! And 
if the world is ever to be converted, we must have a 
live ministry. Yours truly, 

B. G. Parker, 

Committee. 
Crozer Seminary, Chester, Pa., 1874. 



From Rev. Dr. Burns. 

Dear Brother Andrews : I have been reading 
your book "Living Life," or " Autobiography," with 



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great delight. It is, like yourself, unique, warm, and 
inspiriting. Your book must do good. Would that 
all American, as well as English, students, in the 
ministry, would read it. 
Yours ever, 

In the vineyard, affectionately, 

Jabez Burns. 

London, England, Nov. 15, 1873. 

From Rev. Mr. Nichols. 

Dear Brother Andrews : I thank you for the 
present of your " Living Life and Travels." I have 
run through the whole book with the enchantment of 
a finely written novel, leaving a salutary impression 
on my soul worthy of imitation in life-work. 

Your "Revival Sermons " I have read with care, 
pleasure, and profit. Please accept my thanks. I 
will now place it with other valuable books for re- 
vivals, and as a souvenir of my valued friend-evan- 
gelist. May the Lord bless you more and more ! 
Yours very truly, 

Charles Nichols. 

From Rev. Dr. Corey. 

Dear Brother Andrews : Your gift-books are 
well appreciated, and doing good service. They 
will, I am confident, produce much good among the 
students. Yours verily, 

C. H. Corey, 

Richmond Institute, Va. Principal. 

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From a Colored Pastor. 

Dear Brother Andrews : Every minister who 
received your " Revival Sermons " thanked God for 
such a good work, and for your benevolence ; and 
we want more. 

Yours for the Master, 

Wm, B. Jefferson, 
Washington, D. C. Pastor. 



From a Colored Pastor. 

Dear Bro. Andrews : How I prize your books ! 
What a treasure of Bible knowledge ! They are just 
the books for my race. The entire works should be 
in every minister's library. 

Yours for salvation, 

J. H. Armistead, 

Knoxville, Tenn. Pastor. 

From a Colored Editor. 

To all concerned : Rev. Emerson Andrews, 
known from ocean to ocean, in both hemispheres, as 
a revivalist, a Baptist minister of pure standing, has 
given to the world a book of his excellent " Revival 
Sermons," his "Travels in Bible Lands," "Youth's 
Picture Sermons," and fine " Revival Songs." 

Brother Andrews merits the confidence and re- 
spect of all races and colors ; and as such, he, with 



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his works, is hereby commended to all, north or 
south. Rufus L. Perry, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. Editor of National Monitor. 

From Rev. Dr. Cummings. 

Dear Brother Andrews : I have been reading 
your "Revival Sermons," and am very much in- 
terested in them. I like the style and spirit. I am 
very glad you have given them to the world. 
Yours in Christ, 

E. E. Cummings. 
Concord, N. H., 1879. 

From Deacon Warren. 

Dear Brother Andrews : Glorious news ! A 
sea-captain has just returned to Boston, Mass., with 
his dear wife and daughter. He says " both have 
been converted on the voyage, on the ship with him, 
while reading Emerson Andrews' * Revival Ser- 
mons.' And they are soon to be baptized, and to 
join the Baptist church." 

Yours in mission work, 

A. V. Warren, 

Boston, Mass., 1873. Bethel Missionary. 

From Rev. President Phillips. 

Dear Brother Andrews : We are thankful for 
the help you render us ; the more the better. I do 



36 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

not believe you can render a more acceptable gift to 
the Saviour than by helping these freedmen to the 
light. Your books, "Revival Sermons," "Living 
Life," "Bible Lands," and "Youth's Picture Ser- 
mons," have been very popular among the students. 
Your style takes with them. 

Yours truly, 

D. W. Phillips, 

Principal. 

Nashville Seminary, Tenn., 1875. 

Prom Rev. Dr. Olmstead. 

Revival Sermons -preached in Protracted Meet- 
ings. By Rev. Emerson Andrews, A. M., Evan- 
gelist. Boston : Published by James H. Earle, 20 
Hawley Street. — In a fair-looking volume of less 
than 350 pages, we have here over fifty sermons 
from the pen of this well-known Evangelist. Mr. 
A. has seen a long life of active and useful service 
in the ministry, which he loves. Graduating from 
Union College in 1834, settling in a brief pas- 
torate at Rome, N. Y., he has given forty or more 
years to evangelistic labors in various parts of the 
country, chiefly of late years at the South among 
freedmen, for whose salvation and elevation every 
way he labors with a warm heart. These discourses 
are quite characteristic : not aiming at ornamentation 
or elaborate style, they yet urge home with point 



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and earnestness the experimental and practical truths 
of the Bible, and so are suited to do good. We are 
glad to see they are in demand. 

Rev. John W. Olmstead, 

Editor of The Watch-Tower. 
New York City, N. Y., 1879. 

From Rev. T. Goodwin. 

Dear Bro. Andrews : The accompanying ac- 
knowledgment speaks for itself. Bro. Perry " de- 
sires me to thank you a thousand times over for your 
very generous donations," and says that you have 
no idea of the vast amount of good your books are 
accomplishing, and requests a further donation of all 
you can spare. Yours, &c, 

Thomas Goodwin. 

Baptist Publishing Rooms, Phila., Pa. 

American and Foreign Bible Society Rooms, 

New York, Oct. 30, 1879. 

Dear Bro. Waterhouse : Allow me to intro- 
duce to you Rev. Emerson Andrews, of Philadel- 
phia, Pa., a ministering brother in good fellowship 
with the regular Baptist Church. He goes on this 
blessed "warfare at his own charges," and has been 
greatly blessed in his work for the freedmen and 
white population. 

I cordially commend him to your fullest con- 
fidence. With kindest regards to Mrs. W., 
I am, very truly, yours, &c, 

M. R. Fory. 



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From Other Ministers, 

Rev. Emerson Andrews' books are in great de- 
mand here. We are thankful for his donations. 
Brunson^ s. c. (Rev.) Benj. L. Brisbaine. 

Rev. Emerson Andrews' "Autobiography," "Liv- 
ing Life," is excellent. Every one of our ministers 
ought to have it. 

Texas. Rev. Wm. MuSSY. 

Rev. Emerson Andrews' books are admirably 

adapted to the wants of our pupils. His donation 

will help the colored brethren, and all of us. We 

want more of the kind. 

Rev. H. Woodsmall, 

Selma Academy, Ala. Principal. 

I like Rev. Emerson Andrews' " Revival Ser- 
mons" for their bold and independent style. 

(Rev.) A. T. West. 

From the Shaw University. 

Another Gift of Books. — We have recently re- 
ceived a box of.books from Rev. Emerson Andrews, 
of Saratoga, N. Y. Some of the books are stand- 
ard works, and all of them valuable. This is an- 
other instance of Bro. Andrews' liberality and 
interest in the welfare of the colored people. Bro. 
A. expresses the wish that his donation may stimu- 
late others to make like donations of books. 

Raleigh, N. C, 1880. (Rev.) H. M. TuPPER. 



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From Rev. Dr. Dunn. 

Dear Bro. Andrews : The box of books you 
sent us has been duly and thankfully received ; and 
the books, highly appreciated by the students, are 
truly the means of accomplishing much good. 
Your books are widely read. Your name will long 
be remembered in the wide West. 

Yours truly, in behalf of the students, friends, 
and patrons of Central University, 

L. A. Dunn, 

Pell a, Iowa, July 5, 1880. President. 

Rev. T. W. Jones, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 
says of my "Revival Sermons": — "I like them 
much. They have point, directness, force, and 
the right spirit — full of life. They begin and go 
right on to the object. They must do good." 



CHAPTER III. 

VITAL QUESTIONS. 

"/ am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God." 

Rev. i. 8. 

)S there an eternal, living God?" Yes, my 
S|j friend : proofs are positive and ample, from 
Nature and the Bible, to establish the fact of God's, 
existence above all human power of refutation. 
Infidel opposition ever fails. 

The intuitive idea of a God is a truism — a living, 
conscious fact, self-evident as our own being, and so 
remains, unless obscured by sin. The thought of a 
living God is an original revelation by himself to us 
of his own existence, power, and presence. Finite 
man could not scan the wide universe ; neither orig- 
inate the conception of the first cause of all things ; 
nor imagine his attributes ; or ascend up to heaven 
to bring Christ down from above — who is the 
Immanuel, or God with us. 

Behold the natural sun, bright and beautiful ! 
How it reveals its own existence, and gives us the 
real idea of its own elements, in its awful distance. 

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VITAL QUESTIONS. 41 

We could not stretch our vision ninety millions 
of miles to see its burning face, nor bring the 
sun down from its orbit. But it reveals to us 
clearly its own existence, form, and elements, on 
the retiring prismatic cloud after the thunder- 
shower; and paints thereon the sacred covenant 
rainbow of seven primary colors, with their myriads 
of intermediate, distinct, blended, beautiful tints, in 
glorious splendor. So religion is of God, as sun- 
light emanates from above and blends in the rain- 
bow. 

How God multiplies signs, analogies, and con- 
clusive evidences of his own eternal being, and his 
attributes, both natural and moral ! Oh, the united 
power of light, truth, and wisdom, now so pris- 
matic, coming to a focal blaze on us from the book 
of nature and the Bible ! How infinite are the logi- 
cal and analogical proofs, — rational, positive, ex- 
perimental, practical evidences of a living God I 

Like causes produce like effects. The fountain is 
known by the stream, the tree by its fruit, and man 
by his doings. All this you admit. Just now com- 
pare and contrast the Bible doctrine, preachers, and 
fruits, with the infidelity of Paine, Voltaire, Inger- 
sol, or other reprobates. Behold their opposite 
effects in Christendom, or fruits in the world at 
large. Truly the obvious, lasting, triumphant, 
unanimous verdict of a competent jury is positively 



42 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

for God and his Book. During my revival expe- 
rience of fifty years many avowed infidels, semi- 
infidels, Unitarians, Universalists, and other classes 
of unbelievers, have been convicted of divers errors 
and sins, and been converted, immersed, welcomed 
to the church and the Lord's supper ; nay, to all 
the privileges of Christ's kingdom. Each convert 
declared, like one of old, " That whereas I was 
once blind, now I see ! " They confess with sorrow 
their former doubts, acts, loss, and folly, and thus 
witness boldly and joyfully for salvation. Oh, bless 
the Lord for such living, direct testimony ! Behold 
them thus created anew, with right minds — Christ- 
like ! What a miracle of grace ! So the evidences 
for Christianity are visible, tangible, and sensible as 
sunlight. Yet reprobates, given over of God to 
believe a lie, to quench the Spirit, to commit the un- 
pardonable sin, and to be damned, corroborate indi- 
rectly and unintentionally the Bible and our preach- 
ing, by their heretic and ungodly opposition in word 
and deed. 

Let us rejoice in God, like David over Goliath, 
and shout for truth, victory, and the promised land ! 

" BUT IS THE BIBLE TRUE ? " 

Certainly, my friend, without a doubt ! The 
Holy Book is authentic, inspired, credible, and 
practical. It is a pure revelation of God — his mind, 



VITAL QUESTIONS. 43 

his heart, and purposes ; nay, of our life, character, 
death, and destiny, for time and eternity. May you 
know it ! 

All Scripture is inspired by God; and this is evi- 
dent to all but the blind, proud scientists, world- 
lings, and unbelievers, both by internal and external 
evidences. The creation shows clearly Jehovah's 
Godhead: — "The heavens declare his glory; and 
the firmament, his handiwork, his speech and wis- 
dom." But the Bible reveals God and his moral 
character in three distinct persons — Father, Son, 
and Holy Spirit — all in one Being ; each equally 
endowed with the same attributes, but manifested in 
different offices. So, we see light in Christ's light, 
and behold him and ourselves in the gospel-glass, 
till we are changed into Christ's image, from glory 
to glory, by the Holy Spirit. 

"The world by wisdom knew not God." Rome, 
in her palmiest days of a Csesar or a Cicero, knew 
no God nor immortality ! Learned Athens, with 
her brightest stars and highest glory, knew not the 
living God ! It remained for Paul to preach the 
true God in Christ, and the resurrection, to Greece 
and Rome. 

The doctrines, precepts, examples, and ordi- 
nances are rational, practicable, divine. Spiritual 
eyes see God's perfections, their own imperfections, 
privileges, and sure prospects ; but the carnal mind 



44 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

can not see either the signs or evidences. Oh, re- 
pent ; get rid of sin — motes, scales, veils, — and 
look in the Bible-glass till you see Christ formed 
within you. Faith is the key to unlock the rich, 
manifold treasures of God. 

The true Christian feels positively that by grace 
he is a living epistle — a living, practical edition of 
the gospel power-press. This the blind, or mere 
experts in science, arts, and literature, do not, or 
can not, understand. Oh, seek first the kingdom ! 

"BUT, CAN I BE SAVED?" 

Tes, indeed, dear inquiring soul ! Long before 
the world was made this question was solved in the 
eternal, all-wise counsel of Heaven. When the 
great question arose, how fallen pan could be 
saved, neither Gabriel nor any finite spirit could 
answer it. But Christ stands forth and declares, 
" I have found a ransom ! I give myself an all- 
sufficient sacrifice to fulfill the law, to honor the 
throne, and to redeem lost sinners." So God can 
now be just, and the justifier of all believers in 
Jesus. All hail ! Good news to a lost world ! — 
but especially to those who repent and believe ! 
Are you seeking to be saved? Christ came, was 
baptized in Jordan, was tempted, persecuted, be- 
trayed, crucified, raised from the tomb, and mani- 
fested openly and bodily to his disciples for forty 



VITAL QUESTIONS. 45 

days; then, from the Mount of Olives, he ascended 
up to heaven to intercede for us, bequeathing great 
endowments to all his disciples and faithful fol- 
lowers. Salvation is now freely offered. 



HOW CAN MAN ESCAPE HELL 



?" 



The rebel Jews and reprobate sinners could not 

Escafe. — There is no other name but Christ's 
whereby you must be saved. He who believes and 
is immersed shall be saved. So it was at Pentecost. 

But what evidences are required of Christians? 

Answer. — The new birth ; witness of the Spirit 
in your heart; love of God, the brethren, the Bible, 
and every known duty. Nay, the fruits of righteous- 
ness, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, and a hundred-fold; a 
foretaste of heaven's gracious, welcome plaudit — 
"well done!" 

"MUST I PROFESS CHRIST?" 

Of course. If you are ashamed of Christ and the 
Gospel, you would be unworthy; and Christ would 
disown you. You cannot be a disciple without en- 
listing. Now, if you believe with all your heart, 
confess with your mouth, and obey the Lord, you 
shall be saved. But if you do not deny yourself, 
nor take up your cross, nor follow Christ, you can- 
not be his disciple. See a model revival : as Pen- 
tecost sinners were convicted, they asked to be 



46 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

saved, most gladly received the Word, were im- 
mersed, added to the church, partook of the Lord's 
Supper, gave for the poor, did missionary work, won 
souls to Christ by thousands, and went on rejoicing. 
Having received the great endowment — the 
power of the Holy Spirit — they went forth to wit- 
ness for Christ, to disciple all nations, beginning at 
Jerusalem. So we must begin at home, and testify 
onward to the utmost part of the earth ; yea, and so 
gather sheaves, and wear a starry crown. 



Most assuredly, dear immortal soul ! Job says : 
K I know that my Redeemer liveth ; though after my 
skin, worms devour this body, yet in my flesh shall I 
see God." 

Daniel says : " Many who sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some 
to shame and everlasting contempt." "There will 
be a resurrection of the just and the unjust. The 
dead in their graves shall hear Christ's voice, and 
come forth ; those who have done good, in the res- 
urrection of life ; and those who have done evil, in 
the resurrection of damnation. Blessed and holy is 
he who has a part in the first resurrection ; on such, 
the second death has no power." 

Nay, "if the dead rise not at all, why then are 
they immersed?" Prophets, Christ, and Paul teach 
this doctrine. 



VITAL QUESTIONS. 47 

With what bodies shall we arise? With spiritual 
bodies ; as Christ arose, manifested himself, and 
ascended from Mount Olivet to Heaven. And he 
shall come in like manner as he went up. So 
Christians will arise, see Christ as he is at his com- 
ing, be like him, and be satisfied when we awake in 
his likeness. So shall we ever be with the Lord. 
Oh, then let go of sin, glory in the cross, and live 
with Christ ! 

"will there be a general judgment." 

Thus says the Book : " God has appointed a day 
in which he will judge the world in righteousness, 
by Jesus Christ." All judgment is administered by 
God, the Son — Immanuel — God with us. "So 
we must all appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, 
that each one may receive the things done in the 
body, according to the things which he did, whether 
good or bad." We must die, be raised, and be 
judged. The Judge will sit, the books be opened, 
and all on the right hand will be justified for heaven ; 
and those on the left hand will be condemned ; and 
each be justly requited according to his works and 
fitness for heaven or hell. 

That day will be sudden, awful, terrible, heart- 
revealing, soul-rending, separating, decisive — the 
final day. Oh, prepare to meet God ! 



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Amen ! says the unchangeable Jehovah ; and so 
do all heaven decree. The righteous will retain his 
character, and the wicked his ; and each be requited 
accordingly, evermore. "The wicked shall go 
away into everlasting punishment ; but the righteous 
shall go into life eternal." So "the hope of the un- 
just man perishes " ; but the " righteous has hope in 
his death." Thus you see two classes in life, death, 
resurrection, judgment, and in eternity. The wicked 
will be tormented like Satan, Dives, and reprobates, 
— in body, memory, conscience — in hell. The 
righteous in heaven will remember grace, and glory 
in the cross ! 



" Seek first God's kingdom and grace." Friend, 
what if you gain all the wide world, and then lose it 
with your soul ? Time is precious ; Christ is pre- 
cious ; so is religion, and your soul. Your salva- 
tion is precious, indeed, beyond all finite computation. 
The redemption-price is the true exponent of the 
soul's worth — infinite, immortal — to live as long as 
God lives ; to increase in magnitude, knowledge, 
capacity, in happiness or misery forever ! 

Oh, what a responsibility, then, rests on you and 
me ! What an account will you give to God? Meet 



VITAL QUESTIONS. 49 

him you must ; prepared or not ; willing or not ; with 
or without the wedding garment ; and be tried, 
judged, and rewarded as you deserve. Why not 
secure now the indispensable preparation, and so be 
ready with your lamp burning? You prepare for 
the school, the wedding, the court, and church. 
Very well. Now prove your regeneration, justifica- 
tion, sanctification, adoption, and your heavenly title ; 
and you have the best, the only true and complete 
outfit for life, death, resurrection, and judgment; 
and to enjoy God, the angels, and all the saints in 
glory forever. Are you prepared? Oh, sinners, 
give Christ your heart and life now ! Christians, 
God helping, win souls, and secure the prize. 
Preachers, let us hold up the cross, clear our skirts, 
and save souls. Yea, let us all be ready when the 
Lord shall call for us, to meet above, to sing 
" happy day " and sovereign love in Heaven. 
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CHAPTER IV. 

INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 

^@HE fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." 
^(Ps. xiv. i.) You say, " I cannot believe in the 
existence of God." O how blind ! How your elder 
brother has been pictured in the text ! Your younger 
brother says : " No God seeth me." But how false, 
foolish, wicked, and suicidal to shut your diseased 
eyes and then declare there is no sun ! Oh, let 
motes and scales fall off! Jehovah reveals himself 
and his attributes as manifestly as the natural sun 
shows itself. Who can harbor a doubt in this case? 
Proofs are self-evident. Every effect must necessa- 
rily have some adequate cause. The universe, both 
animate and inanimate, could not spring up into 
existence, order, harmony, adaptation, action, or life, 
without an all-sufficient first cause — the true and 
living God. We give you facts and reasons, and 
you see you have no ground on which to stand ; — 
neither facts, nor example, or a single sign of a rea- 
son for your unbelief. Well, you reply, "The evan- 
gelist may be right ; but what, and how much, do 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 5 1 

you think is essential to or for a believer?" I an- 
swer : To know Bible truth, the Holy Spirit's power, 
Christ as your Saviour in the new birth by faith and 
practical experience. 

Peter, Paul, and myriads of Christians so testify. 
But such experts in arts or science as Tyndall, Dar- 
win, Huxley, or Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, can not 
imagine, or guess, or ever know what true religion 
is without the experience. Oh, what can a blind 
man know of colors? or a deaf man about music? 
or the unborn about this world? Men of mere 
science may see minute natural things, changes, or 
facts, and yet know nothing of God's kingdom. 
What did Nicodemus, or Paul, or the jailor know 
of it before their conversion? Sin, pride, and prej- 
udice serve to blind infidel, ungodly eyes. They ig- 
nore the true God, Adam, angels, Christ, and saints, 
and boast of a somewhat mysterious or monkey 
origin. O how perverse, blind, and mad ! The 
greater the light the less they see, like the night-owl 
in the sunshine. How eye-blind, or color-blind ! — 
loving darkness rather than light ! There certainly 
can be no evolution without the involution. So 
come all good gifts from a supreme God. 

"Well," you say, " preach on ; my mind is some- 
how changing." The Lord help you to see the re- 
lation of cause and effect, of good and evil, Chris- 
tianity and infidelity ; yea, the different influences on 



52 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

individuals or nations, humane, civil, social, moral, 
political, and religious ! O how debasing, bru- 
talizing, and damning is infidelity ! While Christian- 
ity, in contrast, promotes truth, virtue, law, order, 
liberty, temperance, marriage, prosperity, patriot- 
ism, w r ealth, education, equality, and happiness. 

"Well, evangelist, your views seem correct, and I 
feel almost persuaded to be a Christian." 

"but the bible seems mysterious." 

You say, " I cannot understand the mystery of 
godliness." Well, my friend, I admire your candor. 
But you now find some clear, feasible truths, do 
you? "Yes, certainly." Well, do as in business. 
We learn, begin, improve, and succeed. Do you 
now use the Bible facts that you do know? "Oh, 
no ! " Oh, if you will not use the facts, the alphabet 
which you do know, how can you learn to read, 
know more, or succeed? Oh, be wise for thyself! 

An old slaveholder once complained to his pious 
servant about the doctrine of election. Jack replied : 
" Master, you begin at the wrong end. Take the big 
Book, read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, then 
go through the Acts, and when you get to Romans 
you will know what election means." Now, rightly 
use what you do know of the Word till mystery after 
mystery is solved, and you may enjoy all the rest. 
You may find many problems, one after another, as 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 53 

they arise and are solved, and as you advance in 
experience, and happy solutions will continue. Con- 
sistency is a jewel. Say, do mysteries of nature 
vanish all at once? Why then complain of the mys- 
teries of God, the Trinity, or His attributes? or of 
Bible inspiration, atonement, decrees, conversion, 
sanctification, resurrection, and eternal retribution? 
The world was not made in a single day. Why 
then do you find fault if so be all mystery does not 
vanish during your first lesson? O what a mystery, 
too, you are to yourself, with an active, sympa- 
thetic system, mind, body, heart, and life ! Yet you 
see, admit, and act upon the facts. " Man is fear- 
fully and wonderfully made." How the mind affects 
the body, and the body the mind ! How the heart 
spontaneously throbs night and day without our care 
or bidding, even for a life-time ! Man is surely the 
highest workmanship of God ! Oh, be wise in 
thought, motive, and act. Behold, all creation and 
providence, as well as revelation, are draped in mys- 
teries. But as we pass from infancy and childhood 
by degrees to manhood, so we think, speak, reason, 
choose, will, and act. We are wise if we do as Paul 
did when he became a man. Thus when we become 
Christians, and grow in grace, old doubts and mys- 
teries begin to flee like chaff, frost, fog, or clouds, 
before the wind or rising sun. Dear friend, do not 
object or find fault with the Bible because of any 



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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



real or imaginary mystery. If you could compre- 
hend God, his Word, works and ways, then you 
might claim equality, and think him unworthy of 
supreme reverence. Just humbly give up all sin, 
and obey the light you now have, and soon, like 
other repenting sinners, you will rejoice with new 
eyes and heart. 

" But without controversy, great is the mystery of 
godliness : God manifested in the flesh, justified in 
the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, 
believed on in the world, and received up to glory," 
there to intercede for us. O friend, accept Christ, 
and say: K Whereas I was once blind I now see ! " 



Now, dear soul, please just look squarely in the 
gospel mirror. Are not your eyes crossed, or filled 
with dust? or your heart perverted and full of pride? 
or your mind carnal, biased, and full of unbelief? 
Do not say again that " you cannot tell what senti- 
ments to adopt." If you were to look so cross-eyed 
from any outside standpoint of creation, and gaze at 
all parts of the solar system ; or examine science, 
art, literature, commerce, agriculture, navigation, 
and all the learned professions, — truly, you would 
be as sadly afloat, cloudy, vexed, or bewildered, with 
none to help. Blind physicians cannot take away 
the obstructions, nor give you sight. But go to Jesus 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 55 

at once ; get the inner side, near the centre of the 
Christian's solar system ; stand on the high platform 
of truth and right reason ; look with open eyes 
through the gospel glass upon the surrounding ex- 
panse of nature and grace ; and with the light of 
the sun of righteousness view the great panorama of 
time and eternity, — with the glorious covenant rain- 
bow, or cloud of silver lining, chasing brightly aw r ay 
the retiring darkness ! Yea, " if any man will do 
His will he shall know of the doctrine." 



" I am often perplexed by them." So they may 
seem or be to carnal eyes, from a far-off, outside 
standpoint ; yet real Christians, like successful, 
loyal business men, must necessarily be agreed on 
all the great cardinal points. So, there are myriads 
more of essential Christian points of agreement, 
than of any practical differences. On some minor, 
obscure, or outer points, we have a few weak, igno- 
rant,- passionate, or spurious professors among the 
saints, who cause divisions and offences. But there 
would be no hypocrites if there were no real Chris- 
tians. How ridiculous it would be to make and 
utter counterfeit money if there were no genuine 
currency ! How darkness around shows the church 
to be the light of the world ! and so bright ! As 
after the thunder-storm and retiring cloud the rain- 



56 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

bow shows the choice tints and colors, so may you 
with Zion see all perplexities flee, and shine in 
eternal day ! 



" I think them exclusive, bigoted, and selfish. " 
No wonder ! History repeats itself, and so does 
depravity. You know how they once persecuted 
John the Baptist, Christ, Paul, and other Baptists, 
for preaching and practicing the same faith. Notice, 
too, how they were slandered, imprisoned, robbed, 
murdered, or exiled in the "dark ages." How the 
Baptists among the Puritans suffered many cruelties 
in old Massachusetts for liberty of conscience ! 
How Roger Williams was driven from home in 
midwinter to seek and find a home where he might 
enjoy soul-liberty, among the Indians in Providence, 
Rhode Island. There he established the first Bap- 
tist church in America. 

Behold, the Baptists were opposed and persecuted 
in New York, and in some other States ; and 
especially abused and whipped in old Virginia. 
And for what ? For preaching the gospel, and 
practicing the order and ordinances of Christ and 
his apostles. So it was, and so it is. In modern 
days we have suffered persecutions in various modi- 
fied forms, in different States, by different classes, 
according to circumstances. But the majority is for 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 57 

us; viz., God, the gospel, history, three millions of 
Baptists in America, and many other churches here, 
in Europe, and elsewhere. 

The best linguists of the learned world, and many 
of the ripest scholars of different religious denomi- 
nations, agree with us in the true meaning of the 
Greek word ba^ptizo and its cognates, to signify im- 
merse. And we affirm, without fear of successful 
contradiction, that this is the word the Lord always 
uses to express the ordinance of baptism, and that 
the term always denotes immersion. 

Alas ! we know the sad objections ! But from 
whom do they come? Are they Romanists, errorists, 
unbelievers, or disobedient delinquents, presuming 
to follow perverting substitutes? Behold the spirit, 
power, and workings of carnal policy, pride, popish, 
popular inventions, adopted by persecutors of the 
Baptists ! Yea, by doctors of divinity, and churches 
who admit our practice to be apostolic, yet profess 
to have " a wiser way." See Stanley, Pedobaptists, 
and Romanists. 

We expect persecution, if we live godly, and are 
prepared for it. Christ is our example. All is for 
our good. O my friend, reform now, believe on 
Christ and obey, and you may share with us here, 
and at last in heaven. " The carnal mind cannot 
discern the things of the Spirit " ; but the spiritual 
sees, knows, writes, speaks, and sings. 



58 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



" But you Baptists have wrongly put up the bars." 

Dear friend, what is your authority or proof? Tell 
me, if you have anything better than carnal, popish, 
spurious substitutes or traditions of men for your 
authority, evidences, reasons, deductions, practice, 
or objections. Why disobey God, and then revile 
us? Let the candid ones judge us, while we obey 
Christ. 

The sacred ordinances of baptism and the Supper 
were instituted by Christ, confirmed at Pentecost, 
perpetuated by the apostles and obedient disciples ; 
and are observed to this day by their faithful, perse- 
cuted, but apostolic, happy successors. While bap- 
tism is emblematic of the burial and resurrection of 
Christ and true believers, the Lord's Supper shows 
Christ's crucifixion till he come ; not as a sign of 
Christian fellowship, but as a holy remembrancer ; 
not a feast of recognition or reciprocity, but a cele- 
bration of Christ's death till we see him as he is. 
Be like him, and be satisfied. 

Now, before God, who "puts up the bars?" who 
neglects, perverts, disobeys, or counterfeits the ordi- 
nances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and then 
charges the Baptists with his sin ? But who is the 
objector? Is the unbeliever or the delinquent the 
accuser of the faithful? May the Lord open his 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 59 

eyes ! Many such objectors in our revival meetings 
have confessed their sins, forsaken their errors, and 
become true, bold witnesses for Christ, his Word, 
and ordinances. May you by grace be able to see, 
believe, testify, and enjoy the Gospel Faith ! 

" BUT I HAVE OTHER OBJECTIONS." 

Pray what can they be? "Well, I dislike your 
sentiments on temperance — the use of intoxicants, 
opium, tobacco, chloral, and absinthe." Anything 
more? "Yes, sir. I don't like your views on glut- 
tony, marriage, divorce, fashion, pride, and hell." 
Is not your fight all against God and the Gospel? 
Paul calls on us " to be temperate in all things " ; 
and " not be unequally yoked with unbelievers." 
Christ says, "deny thyself." Paul says, " whether 
you eat or drink, you should do all to the glory of 
God;" yea, and "to marry only in the Lord, hav- 
ing necessity." Why break God's law, and then 
try the poor shield of man's law, as liquor-men, 
gamblers, bankrupts, and Sabbath-breakers do? 
Do you profess religion ? Then obey God ; or you 
must settle with him. I do not wonder that sinners, 
drinkers, and adulterers do not like my preaching ; 
but Christ forbade all sin, and all divorce, except 
for one sin — the sin of adultery. Then, if either 
one of the divorced shall marry while the other lives, 
he or she is guilty of adultery ; and any one marry- 



60 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

ing either while the other lives, shall be guilty of 
adultery. Christ says Moses allowed the Jews a bill 
of divorce for the hardness of their hearts. Christ 
and Paul are explicit on this point. But how many 
ministers and others are guilty, and truly condemned 
by the gospel ! How dumb, weak, and offensive, 
too, they are on this point, by their complicity ! 
O what sad records ! Let the guilty reform, and 
objectors would disappear. 

"WE DO NOT AGREE, BUT I RESPECT YOU." 

" I am resolved to make amends, and hope for the 
best. My objections to the evangelist are giving 
way." May God wipe all your sins away, and give 
you a new heart ! Finally, at the age of seventy- 
four, and having for half a century preached and 
traveled all over Christendom, and, by grace, winning 
some fifty thousand souls to Christ, baptizing many 
in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, in rivers 
from the Potomac to the St. Lawrence, in bays, 
ponds, pools, and baptistries, I may now be per- 
mitted to give you a word of counsel. Let your 
objections go. Mind God in all instances. Be 
faithful, courteous, generous to the needy of all 
classes. Never sport on Satan's ground, nor be 
intemperate any way. Avoid bad company, books, 
places, habits, or motives. Be honest, prompt, 
economical, benevolent, and happy. Please God. 



INFIDEL OBJECTIONS. 6l 

Imitate Christ. Stand by Paul, and be loyal. Make 
your mark for heaven, on mind, matter, and souls ! 
Be a true, whole-souled Baptist, fit for life, death, 
and glory ! 

GOING HOME. 

O come, my loving neighbors, 

Repent, and go with me ; 
Seek Jesus, grace, and orders, 

With hope and pardon free. 

O come, my loving brethren, 

Bid sin and sorrow flee ; 
Trust God, and live for heaven, 

Thus Christ in glory see. 

O come, my loving soldiers, 

Press on for marks and crowns ; 

Till 'midst all-fulgent glories 
Our welcome "plaudit" sounds. 

O come, my loving Saviour, 

In Spirit, reign and love ; 
Give might, success, and favor, 

Then crown us saints above. 

E. A. 




CHAPTER V. 

PREACHING POWER. 

$|cj)Y speech and preaching," says Paul, "were 
not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, 
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of 
power" (i Cor. ii. 4). Paul was truly converted, 
called, endowed to preach, and did his preaching 
effectually. Christ-like and Spirit-full, he must pre- 
vail, as he did. Paul was intellectual, learned, 
spiritual, devoted, eloquent, wise, and successful 
— a good model. Let us study the elements of 
preaching-power for accomplishing similar results. 
Preaching : this means to cry, proclaim, utter, 
herald, teach, or to counsel in public by a moral or 
religious discourse or sermon on Christ crucified for 
sinners. 

Matter of preaching : it is God, his attributes, 
the Bible, Trinity, man's origin and fall, depravity, 
atonement, election, salvation, divine offices, regen- 
eration, adoption, justification, sanctification, perse- 
verance, Lord's day, baptism, Lord's Supper, death, 

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PREACHING POWER. 63 

resurrection, judgment, eternal retributions of hap- 
piness and misery — the Revelations of God ! 

These are the great cardinal or essential doctrines, 
with precepts and examples, to be preached to God's 
people and to all the world ; nay, earnest piety, love, 
faith, wisdom, knowledge, goodness, and health. 

ELEMENTS OF PREACHING POWER. 

This is a subject of great moment. The Lord 
help us to be true ambassadors of God to man; to 
bear the message of eternal life or death to immortal 
souls ; to speak and witness in Christ's stead ! "Who 
is sufficient for the work? " It is all of grace. 

Love is the soul, center, and circle, — the motive 
power of all good in heaven or on earth ; yea, in the 
preacher's heart and the hearer's. 

The Holy Spirit's call and endowments are in- 
dispensable to effectual preaching and spiritual last- 
ing success. We are clouds without rain, wells with 
no water, empty vessels, tinkling cymbals, unless 
filled with the Spirit. 

Gospel truth, Christian experience and practice, 
in the light of nature and grace, are our themes, 
outfit, armor, and consolation. 

Faith is glorious substance and evidence of the 
past, present, and future, with infallible assurances 
of success. Without faith we cannot escape sin nor 
please God. 



64 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Earnestness is ever necessary, inspiring and in- 
suring. It is the grand secret of power and success 
in affecting other minds and fortunes for good. The 
Spirit, truth, love, wisdom, and action are here 
united, and all the Christian graces truly utilized 
and focalized. 

Submission to God's will, cheerfully, confidently, 
and continually, never fails of full success. Never 
confer with old self, nor with friends, enemies, or 
audiences, but God. We may read God's will in the 
heavens, earth, providence, and in many signs, but 
especially in his Word, by the Spirit, our experience 
and practice, amidst duties and privileges. With 
our gifts and graces may our prayer ever be : " Let 
thy kingdom come and thy will be done." Amen. 

Oneness of purpose : Work without a plan ever 
proves abortive ; as was once quaintly said of a mis- 
taken preacher, that "he aimed at nothing, and hit 
it every time." We seem to have many such. The 
eye must be single for Christ and souls, as we preach 
salvation by the cross; for all the universe, with 
Satan and the wicked, shall work for our achiev- 
ment. So powers are used and focalized ; our point 
is reached; our hope and object realized. 

Decision of character, convergency of thought, 
action, and means, tell manifold more in preaching 
than elsewhere, as the office is more important. 

Godliness was and is a great, active, efficient, 



PRE A CH1NG PO WER. 65 

and mysterious power in live, edifying preaching. 
Living in Christ daily and habitually gives sure ac- 
cess to God and men, and wins myriads of souls. 

Prayer, effectual and fervent, is of a righteous 
man, and ever prevails, like Jacob's, "with God 
and with man." God inspires it, and always an- 
swers it. 

Examples : — Paul, Luther, Whitefield, Bunyan, 
Edwards, Nettleton, Knapp, Finney, and true revi- 
alists ; yea, all Christians who are full of the Spirit 
and pray in faith. 

METHOD OF PREACHING. 

Method, order, and manner, often give great and 
augmented effect to matter, means and occasions. 
Godly hopes are made up of desire and expectation, 
on good grounds, for good reasons. The links of 
this chain are good, connected, and anchor us in 
heaven. So all our means, methods, and ways must 
conspire to our one great and glorious object. Let 
each preacher be his peculiar self, educated, con- 
secrated, concentrated, consistent, courageous, and 
continuous ; conquering and constraining converts 
to Christ and to living crowns. 

DR. BASCOM'S ADVICE. 

To Preachers: — "Be short, but lively. Load 
up before you enter the sacred desk. Announce 
5 



66 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

your text, when the time comes, with distinctness, 
and go right into the discussion. Fire at point- 
blank range. Keep your eye on the drowsy hearer 
till he becomes wide awake. Hold the children and 
those restless young men under your command. 
Give a portion to the aged ones, who try to catch 
every syllable you utter, and, under some pulpit 
orators, lose about half. Stir up all the people. 
Shake off dull sloth, in manner and tone. Be in 
earnest, tremendously in earnest ! Time is passing 
— eternity is near — judgment is at the door ! Make 
your impression, if you can, inside of thirty minutes. 
If not, then ask God to give His blessing, and close." 
And Bascom was a rare model. I pity a coward, 
flunky, trimmer, time-server ! Perfect love casts out 
all fear and sin. Be deliberate, bold, strike the 
right word in the sentence. Don't begin too high 
a tone or pitch for a climax; tell the truth with 
vigor, and never let yourself or hearers play. 

ELEMENTS OF POWER IN BRIEF. 

I. Matter : God, Bible, Trinity, work. 

II. Preacher : Goodness, knowledge, love, 
faith, fullness, feeling, spirit, earnestness, passion, 
prayer, hope. 

III. Manner : Composition, delivery, look, ac- 
tion, style, courage, effect. 



PREACHING POWER. 67 

REVIVAL PREACHING METHOD. 

I. Preach to Christians, church, professors, till 
the major co-operation is manifest; yea, for days or 
weeks. Here judgment begins. 

II. Charge home point-blank on sinners. Preach 
law, sinfulness of sin, or guilt. Hold up Christ, sal- 
vation, faith, the crisis. 

III. Mind the Word, Spirit, prayer, Providence, 
travail, converts, signs, acts, rejoicing, immersion, 
Lord's Supper, walking in love. 

SIMPLICITY IN PREACHING. 

"Uncle Sam," a negro in New Jersey, said, " The 
students of Princeton were too deep and learned ; 
he could not understand them ; but the president, 
Dr. Alexander, he liked. He is hardly fit to preach 
to the whites ; but he knows just enough to preach 
to us colored folks. We can understand him." A 
doctor's son heard his father praise Mr. Andrews, 
the evangelist ; so he went seven miles to hear him 
preach, but to be disappointed. "Why, father, you 
said Mr. Andrews was talented and very learned ; 
but I could understand every word that he spoke." 
The doctor was highly delighted with the report. 

IMPORTANCE OF ADAPTATION. 

We may be cheerful or solemn, sympathetic and 
consoling, severe and vehement, florid and descrip- 



68 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

tive ; plain, argumentative, and didactic; dramatic, 
terrific, and exclamatory, or tender and triumphant, 
according to the subject, demand, and occasion. 

Proper vocal tones ; inflections, natural and culti- 
vated ; colloquial, abrupt, or flowing style ; suitable 
attire, and popular address of a good preacher, all 
tell wonders. Right action and expression are 
mighty. Be deliberate and self-possessed ; magnify 
rather than minify your subject; be direct, spirited, 
audible, graphic, various, emphatic, focal, brief, 
and timely. Feel composed, firm, hopeful, sure, 
responsible, anticipative ; yea, your subject, occa- 
sion, and destiny ! 

Preachers should be like pearl-divers : to go in 
all over, and rise with rescued jewels for the Lord's 
crown. Preach like lightning. It is not the thun- 
der, nor the flash, or zigzag ; but 'tis the slant that 
strikes with effect. Some sa} T , " Brain preaching is 
injurious, and chills down the church and people." 
But truth should come hissing hot from the furnace 
of a full heart, fired with love, and warm with 
humanity and Christianity. Learned, elaborate, 
logical, weighty sermons are not usually so power- 
ful to awaken sinners, nor so effectual in revivals, 
Church prayer and conference meetings, or reform- 
ations, as Bible texts, appeals, experiences, exam- 
ples, and prayers. Reformative preaching aims at 
the heart — the fountain ; not at the surface, streams, 
or outlets. Cut up evil by the roots ! 



PREACHING POWER. 69 

Rev. Martin Luther said, " He did not mind the 
forty doctors and bishops present, but he preached 
to the two thousand children and sinners." What a 
pity so many ministers neglect the Cross, the poor, 
and common people, and, like stained window-glass, 
shut out or obscure the light ! Plain preaching is 
like bread, sun, and jewels. 



1. Do not fear to be yourself — at home. 

2. Writing or speaking, throw off restraints. 

3. The ideal of a sermon or discourse is a flow, 
without divisions, from first to last. 

4. Don't wait to get into a rich mine, but dig 
away till you strike a good vein. 

5. Be right earnest, by being full as a keg "tipped 
or tapped ; " it will flow or stream. 

6. Be nothing but a preacher, if you would be 
effective : the channel must be narrow and deep. 

7. Make preaching the first thing, or you will be 
secondary, ordinary, or powerless. 

8. Study the Scriptures, and use commentaries as 
ladders, crutches, or spectacles. 

9. Get the matter. To seek only for style is like 
studying a cook-book without any market. 

10. Go into your work, not gradually or fearing, 
but all over, as you chuck in puppies to learn them 
to swim ; and then up, and, like a whale, spout. 



70 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

ii. Be apostolic, guileless, simple, expository, 
parental, brief, natural, varied, gushing, spiritual, 
and unlike the modern school. 

12. Begin, extemporize; no notes, touch, go on, 
stop ! 

13. Strip off the leaves in preaching, as you do a 
rod, if you would cut the heart of the sinner. 

Dr. Nott, the venerable, wise, eloquent president 
of Union College, once wrote to a company of his 
former pupils just entering the gospel ministry, con- 
centrating the experience and observations of four- 
score years in brief. 

DR. NOTT'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MINISTERS. 

1. Let politics alone. Let religious controversy 
alone. Let heresy alone. Be able to say no ! 

2. Preach the Gospel; continue to preach it. It 
will be your best defence against error. 

3. One revival of religion will do more against 
formalists and heretics than years of controversial 
labors. In one word, do all you can by preaching 
Christ crucified, and by prayer, and leave the rest 
to providence. 

For these sage and practical directions, and for 
.such " lessons " under Dr. Nott's instruction for three 
3^ears in Union College at the beginning of my min- 
try, I have blessed God many thousand times, and 
shall, with tens of thousands of my spiritual children 



PREACHING POWER. 



71 



and others, for these and other wise counsels and 
examples for time and in eternity. Yea, we will 
praise God for "his unspeakable gift," ambassadors, 
and the starry crowns in heaven. May our minds 
by grace be capacious, able to drink in the wide 
ocean of rich intelligence and wisdom, and to pour 
it forth in pure, limpid, living, and healthy streams, 
to water, vivify, refresh, and fructify every depart- 
ment of sacred life or existence, and waft a precious, 
infinite harvest of souls into the pacific ocean of 
God's eternal love ! 

ELOCUTION GENERAL RULES. 

1. Articulation must be distinct, deliberate. 

2. Pronunciation must be bold and forcible. 

3. Gain compass or variety in height of voice. 

4. Pronounce words with propriety, elegance. 

5. Accent syllables with pause and cadence. 

6. Mark words by easy, forcible, varied, emphasis. 

7. Utter by natural emotions and passions. 

8. Express ideas by tones, looks, acts, gestures. 

PARTICULAR RULES. 

1. Let each sentence have one emphatic word. 

2. The emphatic word completes the sense. 

3. Should determine this emphatic word. 

4. A word that can be left out is not emphatic. 

5. An emphatic word is not so again in a phrase. 



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6. Pronouns are not emphatic but by contrast. 

7. Pause before and after the emphatic word. 

8. Suit sound to sense or feeling by contrast. 

9. Accent falls on the emphatic part of a word. 

10. Accent important words ; emphasize phrases. 

11. Learned orators are our best specimens. 

12. Orators take Webster, noted as the standard. 

13. Good literary society pronounce the best. 

DIVISIONS OF AN ORATION. 

1st. — Exordium. 2d. — Question. 3d. — Nar- 
ration. 4th. — Argument. 5th. — Refutation. 
6th. — Conclusion and peroration. 7th. — Vary 
these by your wisdom. 

FAULTS OF THE PULPIT. 

1st. — Want of the Spirit and zeal. 2d. — Lags 
behind the age. 3d. — So dignified. 4th. — Too 
fastidious. 5th. — Non-catholic. 6th. — Cold and 
formal. 7th. — Too chronic, or falsely polite. 

VARIOUS CONSTITUENTS IN PREACHING. 

Matter, manner, style, and time, co-operating, 
produce wonderful effects. Spiritual things by the 
Spirit are seen and felt. Thus the true preacher 
views the signs of the times, and adapts himself to 
the occasion, and succeeds. Whether we adopt the 
oral or written, plain or ornate, logical or rhetorical, 



PREACHING POWER. 73 

simple or complex, gay or grave, woful or glorious, 
fierce or peaceful style or expression, like causes 
produce like effects, as like begets like. Streams 
rise high as the fountain-head. 

The spiritual preacher, ever with open heart 
and mouth, pours forth precious truths, new and old, 
reviving, various, human, and divine; yea, like 
floods of pearls, showers of stars, covenant rain- 
bows, or heavenly manna with honey dews. Man- 
ner or action is all vain without matter, as a moun- 
tain in travail to bring forth a mouse, or a " per- 
petual motion " that never goes. 

Earnestness is a constituent of the beau ideal 
of K pulpit eloquence," energetic and direct ; a mov- 
ing, vitalizing, utilizing style to magnify all the sub- 
ject-matter of religion, to save man, and glorify 
God. " Heart-power is our motto." Mind and 
matter, word, action, feeling, expression, hope, 
reason, memory, motive, and resolution united 
secure order, harmony, and the ideal of oratory. 
Imagination, voice, gestures, spirit, and magnetism, 
sanctified by God's Spirit and grace, magnify and 
crown our pulpit powers. 

preachers' views, habits, maxims. 

Dr. Cutting on the want of ministers : — 
"1st. — Want of Church spirituality. 2d. — 
False trust in education. 3d. — Fear of failure and 



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trials. 4th. — Poverty and wealth. 5th. — Worldly 
influences." 

Oh, to be a full, right, wise, and successful 
preacher ! What bright models we have in John 
the Baptist, Christ, and Paul ! 

Dr. Doddridge says : " Never preach without in- 
troducing Christ and the Spirit." 

Dr. Nettleton says : " Give and get focal atten- 
tion. Be brief, be on time, and succeed." 

Dr. F. Wayland says : " If to live his life over, 
he would practice extempore preaching." 

Dr. Whitefield said : " Preaching is my great 
catholicon for domestic and other troubles." 

Elder Knapp says : " I think preaching the best 
exercise for body, mind, and morals." 

Dr. Whitefield's " Hark ! Hark ! " and " O Eter- 
nity ! " were awfully effective. Spirit -power ! 

Rev. Rowland Hill said: "Every sermon should 
have three R's — ruin, redemption, regeneration." 
It has no soul, life, or power without those. 

Dr. E. Nott said to us : " In every sermon put in 
so much of Christ, that hearers may have no ex- 
cuse." 

Dr. Whitefield was remarkable for preaching car- 
dinal truths and elevating Christ ; for a flaming, 
flowing, soul-feeling ; a direct application to the 
heart and conscience ; and an abiding confiding in 
the Holy Spirit. 




CHAPTER VI. 

SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 

GREAT CHANGE. 

" Go into thy house, to thy friends, and announce to them how 
great things the Lord has done for thee." — Mark v. 19. 

Introduction. 

Notice the great changes in conversion. 

1. Physical — Health, government, use. 

2. Social — Family, society, world. 

3. Mental — Sanity, sight, judgment. . 

4. Moral — Heart, motives, conduct. 

5. Spiritual — Worship, works, rewards. 

Remarks. 

1. A change is indispensable. 

2. Christ is our only hope. 

3. The Spirit begins; perfects the work. 

4. The Gospel teaches ; encourages. 

5. The Bible is the rule of rewards. 

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CONVERTING SOULS. 

" He who conz>erts a sinner from the error of kis tvay shall save 
a soul from death.'''' — James v. 20. 

Context and Preamble. 
I. God's agencies in converting souls : 

1. Bible, Holy Spirit, Providences. 

2. Preaching, missions, schools. 

3. Parents, church, revivals. 

II. Divine warrant of glorious success : 

1. Save immortal souls; hide their sins. 

Remarks. 
1. Many sinners ; many sins. 
.2. Christian duties ; encouragement. 
3. Field, examples, assurance, reward. 



CHRISTIAN REFORMS. 
" Shall a nation be born at once ?" — Isa. lxvi. 8. 

I. The world revolutionized speedily : 

1. Errors, forms, institutions, and habits. 

2. Laws, governments, officers, and customs. 

3. Depravity — root, branch, field, and fruit. 

II. Agencies employed to secure the result : 

1. Bible, nature, our heart, soul, body, and 

will. 

2. God,Christ, Spirit, providence, and church. 



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III. How the forces are to be employed : 

1. Timely, wisely, justly, mercifully, often. 

2. At the foundation and the superstructure. 

3. By individuals, money, work, zeal, faith. 

4. Power, suddenly, Christ's coming, end. 



HARVEST-TIME. 
" They are white already to harvest" — John iv. 35. 

1. Field — Church, schools, missions, morals. 

2. Laborers — Preachers and Christians endowed. 

3. Means — Word, Spirit, providence, pressed-men. 

4. Motives — Honesty, God, wages, eternal life. 

5. Time — Now, signs, ripe, danger, crisis. 



DANCING — BIBLE VIEW. 
"A time to dance." — Eccl. iii. 4. 

1. Religious act : Of joy or feasts, true or idol ; 

2. By maidens only, then; in daytime, open air. 

3. Men perverted it to make it mixed and vile. 

4. A shame for amusement, and vain — a sacrilege. 



CHRISTIAN UNION. 

"Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to- 
gethcr in unity ! " — Ps. cxxxiii. 1. 

Introduction. 
I. The persons to be united in religion : 

1. Believers in Christ, regenerated, obedient. 



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II. The nature of true Christian union: 

i. Divine, gracious, rational, hearty. 
2. Spiritual, essential, visible, eternal. 

III. The best means for promoting this union : 

1. God's Word, Spirit, Gospel ordinances. 

2. Temperance, purity, co-operation. 

IV. Happy effects of Christian union : 

1. On person, church, mission, sinners. 

2. For reformation, revivals, prosperity. 

3. In society, world, time, eternity. 



RELIGIOUS REFORMATION. 

"Repent and turn, that your sins may be blotted out, in order 
that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the 
Lord.'" — Acts iii. 19. 

Prelude. 

I. Origin and elements of real reformation: 

1. God's Spirit, Word, Providence, church. 

2. Love, union, faith, prayer, signs, revivals. 

3. Agencies, earnestness, life, success. 

II. Blessed effects of Gospel reformation : 

1. On Christians, society, world, eternity. 

2. Makes the law, Gospel, religion, precious. 

3. Makes care for Christ, souls, brethren, 

heaven. 



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FULLNESS OF CHRIST. 

"Because in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" 
Col. ii. 9. 

Introduction. 
I. Christ's divinity clearly proved : 

1. Origin, attributes, miracles, testimony. 

2. Doctrine, works, effects, ordinances. 

II. Our duties, fields, glorious results : 

1. Commission, fruits — opposite tenets fail. 

2. Merits, heart, worship, service, crown. 

Remark. 
1. Authority, motives, comforts. 



REVIVAL TRIUMPHS. 

'•'But thanks be to God, who always makes us to triumph in 
Christ." — 2 Cor. ii. 14. 

Historic Sketch. 
I. Pure revivals a glorious triumph : 

1. Grace over sin, flesh, Satan. 

2. Truth over error, vice, crime. 

3. Preaching over cold essays. 

4. Faith and life over forms and sight. 

5. Gospel fruit over sloth, barrenness. 

6. Principles and ordinances over popery. 

II. Evidences of Christian triumph : 

1. Devotion to Christ ; great commission. 

2. Fullness of the Spirit; Christian graces. 

3. Wearing the panoply ; glorying in the cross. 



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Remarks. 

1. Rejoice always ; give thanks. 

2. Be living epistles ; life pictures. 

3. Look to Christ and the joy above. 



WORLDS JUBILEE. 

"From the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same, the 
Lord's name is to be praised." — Ps. cxiii. 3. 

JVotzce the Text. 

1. Prophecies fulfilling; signs of the times. 

2. Sublime work and responsibility of Zion. 

3. Christ our pattern ; apostles our examples. 

4. Trust God, herald the Gospel, harvest souls. 

Remarks. 

1. Preaching is saying and living Christ. 

2. Sacrifices necessary ; adapt means. 

3. Earth is shaking; signs of Millennium. 

4. Soldiers of Christ, triumph and shout ! 



CHARITY. 
" Charity (love) never fails." — 1 Cor. xiii. 8. 

I. Excellency of love to God and man : 

1. Basis, motor, and crown of our graces. 

2. Soul, center, circle, attraction, union. 

3. A charm of faith, hope, and zeal unfailing. 

Question. 
Do you love God, man, and duty? 



SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 8l 

CHURCH-BUILDING. 

"As a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and 
another builds thereon.'''' — i Cor. iii. 10. 

I. Origin, plan, model, orders, Gospel style. 
II. All-important points in church-building : 

1. Foundation, constitution, ratification. 

2. Government, instruction, development. 

3. Material, spirit, motives, work, fitness. 

Remark. 
1. Copy Christ, Paul, Gospel, and so build. 



THE BIBLE LAMP. 
11 Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my fiath." 
Ps. cxix. 105. 

I. The Bible is the great light : 

1. Chart of human nature, state, and hope. 

2. System of morals, religion, and reformation. 

3. Book of sublime prose and matchless poetry. 

4. Revelation of God, man, salvation, eternity. 

5. Word of prophecy, miracles, history, life. 

6. Book of types, ordinances, rules, motives. 

7. Book of theology, measures, grace, rewards. 

Remarks. 

1. Christians are the light of the world. 

2. They advance interests, temporal, eternal. 

3. Reflect on creation, Bible, Providence. 

4. Preach salvation to lost sinners. 

5. Trim their lamps ; get ready for heaven. 

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CHEERFUL CHRISTIANS. 
'■''Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" — John xvi. 33. 

Reasons for being cheerful. — 1st. Too many 
gloomy ones here already. 2d. There is every- 
thing to make the believer cheerful, as every event 
is for his good. 3d. Gloomy disciples misrepresent 
true religion. 4th. Such do but little good — so 
fearful, lame, and lukewarm. 5th. Cheerful ones 
are hopeful, with peace, joy, zeal, obedience, suc- 
cess, and a foretaste of the wedding-supper with the 
crowned in Christ. 6th. God, angels, men, — all 
help and ensure. 7th. In this way we can best 
glorify God, convict and win souls to Christ and 
heaven. 



CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE. 

" We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the 
righteous." — ! John ii. I. 

Introduction by reference, 

I. Christ is our advocate, mediator, and Savior : 

1. Man, as a sinner, is guilty, condemned. 

2. Christ unites God and man in the Cross. 

II. Union with the Cross is needful, wise : 

1. We all need a mediator and Savior. 

2. Christ's family are righteous personages. 

3. Christ unites two natures, human-divine. 

4. We have now free access, and confidence. 



SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 83 

III. God's charge against sinners : 

1. Their sin against law and gospel. 

2. Barrenness, unbelief, neglect of salvation. 

IV. Christ's divine qualifications : 

1. Accepted of God and Christians. 

2. Confesses the enormity of sin and guilt. 

3. Interested for sinners and his people. 

4. His plea of justice and mercy is valid. 

5. His government is honored ; sinner saved. 

Remarks. 

1. Christ crucified, the ground of pardon. 

2. We, ambassadors of Christ, beseech you. 



GENERAL JUDGMENT. 
" Before the judgment-seat of C/irist." — 2 Cor. v. 10. 

I. God's government a model for all dominions : 

1. National, civil, social, domestic, christian. 

2. Judge, jury, witness, court, books, final bar. 
II. General judgment necessary to just awards : 

1. Temporal is oft unequal, slight, opposite. 

2. Promotes morality, prayer, truth, love, faith. 

3. Certain, great, terrible, sudden, final day. 



SUFFICIENCY IN GOD. 
" But our sufficiency is of God." — 2 Cor. iii. 5. 

1. Paul and the context sketched. 

2. Ministerial responsibility is great. 

3. Their insufficiency, and church's, great. 



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4. Our sufficiency is all of God in Christ. 

a) World : Nature, politics, society. 

b) Church : Members, converts, supply, 

c) Ministry : Word, Spirit, life, success. 

d) Prosperity : Manifold, enough, sure. 

Remarks. 

1. The examples, precepts, ordinances. 

2. Successors, facilities, motives, rewards. 



NATIONAL SINS. 
" Sin is a reproach to any people.'''' — Pro v. xiv. 34. 

1. Practical atheism, skepticism, greed. 

2. Reliance on unbelievers, education, to the 

neglect of the moral or the religious part. 

3. Recklessness in elections, in business. 

4. Special devotion to money, worldly gain. 

5. Indulgence of sensual, low appetites. 

6. Worldly fashions or vice in the churches. 

7. Extravagance, divorces, profanity, drink. 

8. Want of spirit, courage in the pulpit. 

9. Immorality in churches, done or abetted. 
10. Infanticide and kindred ills, or crimes. 



GREAT COMMISSION. 
"Disciple all nations, immersing them.' 1 '' — Matt, xxviii. 19. 

I. Ministers' great commission : 

1. Preach the gospel, win souls, feed the 
flock. 



SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 85 

II. Requirements of ministers — a character : 

1. Life, consecration, heart-grace, mind to 

work. 

2. Doctrine, experience, graces, testimony. 

3. Qualification, consistency, example. 

III. Manner and style of true preachers : 

1. Preach in love, faith, hope, zeal, Spirit. 

2. Plainly, extempore, earnestly, wholly. 

3. Actively, daily, reflectively, effectively. 

IV. Motives of Christian ministers : 

1. Call, Spirit, charge, God, salvation. 

2. Exalt the Cross, church, world, to Christ. 



SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
11 Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" — Matt. xvi. 3. 

I. Signs of the times and its lessons : 

1. Sins, errors, greed, activity, change. 

2. Dissatisfaction, contentions, divorces. 

Lessons. 

1. Survey the field, trials, fully. 

2. Look, watch, pray, work, witness. 

3. Follow the Spirit, Providence. 

4. Raise the Cross, reap the world. 

5. Hail reforms and Millennium. 

6. Preach, work, pray, watch, triumph. 

7. Smite every sin, and shout for Jesus. 



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man's great mistakes. 

"This their way is their folly." — Ps. xix. 13. 

Exordium. 
I. The great mistakes of men and nations : 

1. Minding Satan, rather than God. 

2. Not seeking first the kingdom of God. 

3. Eye not single, but double-sighted. 

4. Selfishness, pleasures of sin, error. 

5. Many occupations, neglect of duties. 

6. Intemperance, dishonesty, slackness, crime. 

7. Worldliness, irreligion, anger, revenge. 

8. Cowardice, fickleness ; no star, center, or 

focus. 

9. Want of zeal, earnestness, faith, life. 

10. Bad company, marriage, business, sport. 

11. Wrong motives, temper, amusements, gains. 

12. No God, hope, preparation, title, time. 

Remark. 
1. Be wise, reformative, watchful. 



PROCRASTINATION. 

"Go thy way for this time." — Acts xxiv. 25. 

Prelude. 
I. Characters guilty of this great sin : 

1. Formalists, worldlings, pleasurists. 
II. Sad effects of procrastination : 

1. Insult to God; system of vow-breaking, 



SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 87 

2. Heaven-daring, Spirit-grieving, dangerous. 

3. Hinders ministers, church, anxious souls. 

4. Blasts prospects ; seals souls for hell. 

Remarks. 

1. Don't trifle, vex the Spirit, or Christians. 

2. Give heart and all to God; be saved. 



DOMESTIC RELIGION. 

"JBut all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings" — 
Ex. x. 23. 

Light : Nature, Bible, Christ, Spirit, graces, 
union, life, devotion, library, reading, singing, 
praying, altar, tithes, ordinances, and earnest of 
heaven. 



BIBLE CONVERSION. 
" And sinners shall be converted to thee." — Ps. li. 13. 

Evidences. 

1. Godly sorrow for sin ; reform. 

2. Yielding to the will of God by faith. 

3. Believing with the heart in Christ. 

4. Love to Jesus and Christians in full. 

5. Witness of the Spirit and fruits. 

6. Conscious loss of sin, guilt, and load. 

7. Anxiety for the salvation of sinners. 

8. Spiritual relish for God's Word. 



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9. Keeping God's commands and ordinances. 

10. Humility, and trust in Jesus. 

11. Consolation in prayer and praise. 

12. Growing in grace and success. 



WHY NOT SAVED? 
" And we are not saved." — Jer. viii. 20. 

i. Negatively: — Not by mere merit, law, or 
gospel. 

2. Positively: — By love, penitence, grace, faith. 

3. Practically: — Must repent, just God, change. 

Remarks. 

1. Your own fault, if not saved. 

2. It is all of grace, if you are saved. 

3. Duty to be saved; to give God praise. 

WATCHMAN. 

" Watchman, what of the night f " — Isaiah xxi. 11, 12 ; Ezekiel 
xxxiii. 1-9. 

I. Watchman: — Office, duty, and responsibility. 
II. Notice events past, passing, prospective. 
III. Pastor and church indications: 

1. Salvation, reform, day of grace. 

Remark. 
1. Call, provision, motive to obey. 



SKELETONS OF SERMONS. 89 

GOD IN THE FIRES. 
" Wherefore glorify God in the fires." — Isa. xxiv. 15. 

1. God sends the evil and the good. 

2. God builds the fires, and quells them. 

3. God's motive is love, with no accidents. 

I. How to glorify God in the fires : 

1. Love, trust, patience, hope, doing good. 

2. Resignation, growth in grace, rejoicing. 



PLEASURES IN SIN. 

" God will bring thee to judgment" — Eccl. xi. 9. 

" To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." — Heb. xi. 24. 

1. Notice : — Pleasures in sin ; what are sinful. 

2. Pleasures of sin have only a short season. 

3. Better take Moses' choice, and his example. 

4. Liberty of lust, heart, eyes, spoils all powers. 

5. Cup being full, God reckons with sinners. 



Christ's coming. 

Matt. xxv. 10. — 1st, in person; 2d, power; 3d, 
signs; 4th, object; 5th, day; 6th, results. Oh, 
prepare for it! 




CHAPTER VII. 

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. 

CARRIAGE is of God ; a natural, moral, ra- 
|E tional, mutual, earnest, real union of man and 
woman, as husband and wife, — twain in one for 
life, by a natural, civil contract, and religious rite. 
This is well, right, expedient, honorable, blessed ! 
Marriage was instituted by divine wisdom for God's 
glory ; for the good of mankind, perpetuity and hap- 
piness. Sacred wedlock is a connubial tie, sanc- 
tioned by nature and the Bible, by common and civil 
laws. 

MARRIAGE-ANALOGIES. 

Matter attracts, combines, and separates. 

Plants agree, wed in genus, species, and gender. 

Animals, from the greatest to the smallest insect, 
meet, charm, coo, select, and mate by mutual in- 
stinct, consent, or caprice ; and procreate, separate, 
repeat the same, and die. 

The Heathen meet, fancy, woo, suggest, and 
wed one or more, live together by choice, force, or 

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necessity, or part, like "free-lovers," or live as bond 
slaves to cruel masters born. 

The Christians, indeed, rejoice in pure conjugal 
relations, as twain in one for life-work. But they 
rebuke and spurn the mere selfish, sordid, legalized, 
free-lovers, ungodly marriage, and ignore the un- 
scriptural and criminal divorce. 

Pure marriage is a monogamy, and indissoluble 
except by death ; and allows no complete divorce 
except for the sin of fornication. Living separate 
for cause is justified by the Gospel, laws, and cir- 
cumstances. Final divorce, and remarriage, and 
polygamy are unchristian, unjust, and impolitic. 

BIBLE-LAW, SIN, AND PENALTY. 

From the sin and fall of Adam till now the lust of 
the flesh and love of the world have ever been the 
great sin and curse of mankind in all ages. 

In Noah's day the wicked violated nature's laws 
and ignored the preacher's word ; so God gave them 
over to the flesh and Satan, to fill up their cup, and 
drink it in the flood. 

Sodom lusted, grew obscene, vexed righteous 
Lot, ran riot in heart and life, till God burned up the 
city and sunk it in the Dead Sea. 

Israel went after strange gods and flesh, and 
committed sin, idolatry, and adultery, and suffered 
the penalty. They craved forbidden food, and God 



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gave it to them, with leanness of soul and death. 
How shall we escape if we do so? 

The Jews lusted, broke the " seventh command- 
ment" and others, asked for a bill of divorcement, 
and got it with a curse : — " Moses granted the 
divorce because of the hardness of their hearts." 
(Matt. xix. 8.) The Gospel is not obsolete ! 

Christians, are any of you — ministers, mem- 
bers, or converts — at all guilty, like Israel or the 
Jews? or have you in anywise violated Christ's rule 
of chastity or marriage in heart or life, look, lust, 
intent, or act? Are the Jezebels all cast out? God's 
word is quick and powerful. He will judge. O 
Lord, save and deliver us ! Oh, for grace ! 

The " German Reformed Church " have resolved to 
discipline members divorced for any cause save for 
adultery. 

MARRIAGE PRESAGING DIVORCE. 

1. Wedding those of natural or moral incapacity. 

2. Yoking unequally, unlawfully, or unsuitably. 

3. Uniting for pleasure, position, power, or wealth. 

4. Marriage, selfish, rash, untimely, discordant. 

5. Union without love, faith, work, or economy. 

MARRIAGE VALID AND HAPPY. 

It is authorized by the Bible, nature, and law. It 
was honored by Christ at Cana of Galilee ; and 



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sanctioned indirectly by his forbidding certain other 
marriages of blood, akin or domestic relations ; yea, 
denouncing all divorces, " except for fornication ; " 
and prohibiting the divorced ones from marrying 
with other persons while either partner shall live. 
Have you Christ's Spirit? Christ recognized mar- 
riage by allusions to the bride, guests, bridegroom, 
and wedding supper. Christ also justified it by the 
picture of his relations to his church, children, and 
home. Marriage is also approved and even en- 
joined by Paul with certain specified conditions : for 
greater usefulness, and to avoid scandal — "but only 
in the Lord": — Christian with Christian. Yet, if 
they separate for any possible cause, both Christ and 
Paul say neither of them shall marry any person 
while either of the twain shall live without commit- 
ting adultery, under a penalty. But oh, how much 
there is now of legalized free-lovism and popular 
prostitution ! And where is the blush ? How French 
fashions, vice, and crime prevail ! 



BIBLE TESTIMONY. 

Jesus Christ says (Matt. v. 31, 32) : "And it was 
said : Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give 
her a writing of divorcement. But I say to you, that 
whoever shall put away his wife, save for the cause 
of fornication, makes her commit adultery; and 



94 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

whoever shall marry her when put away, commits 
adultery." 

And (Matt. xix. 8, 9), " He says to them : Moses 
for your hardness of heart, suffered you to put away 
your wives ; but from the beginning it was not so. 
And I say to you, that whoever shall put away his 
wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, 
commits adultery ; and whoever marries her when 
put away, commits adultery." Is not Christ's law 
valid now? 

Also (Mark x. 11, 12) : "And he says to them: 
Whoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, 
commits adultery against her. And if a woman 
shall put away her husband, and be married to an- 
other, she commits adultery." Lord save us ! 

Again (Luke xvi. 18), He says : " Everyone who 
puts away his wife, and marries another, commits 
adultery ; and he who marries her when put away 
from a husband, commits adultery." 

Paul writes (Romans vii. 1-3) : that the " law 
has dominion over a man as long as he lives. For 
the married woman is bound by the law to her hus- 
band while he lives ; but if the husband die, she is 
loosed from the law of the husband. So then, if, 
while the husband lives, she be married to another 
man, she shall be called an adulteress ; but if the 
husband die, she is free from the law ; so that she is 
not an adulteress, though she be married to another 



MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, 95 

man." Is man's law valid against God on marriage 
or divorce? 

And (i Cor. v. 9-11), Paul writes : " If any one 
called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an 
idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extor- 
tioner, with such a one not to keep company, not 
even to eat." 

Also (i Cor. vii. 10) , Paul writes : " That the wife 
depart not from her husband. But if she depart, let 
her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to 
her husband ; and let the husband not put away 
his wife." 

Again (i Cor. vii. 39), Paul writes: "A wife is 
bound by law as long as her husband lives ; but if 
her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married 
to whom she will ; but only in the Lord." Though 
he prefers continence. 

Lastly (Heb. xiii. 4), Paul writes: "Marriage 
is honorable in all, and the bed undeflled ; but for- 
nicators and adulterers God will judge." Will you 
be acquitted? 

MARRIAGE, LAW, AND RESPONSIBILITY. 

The Heathen, who are without the Bible law, 
have a common light, — a law to themselves ; and 
show the law written in their hearts ; their conscience 
also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately 
accusing or else excusing. Thus they are respon- 



p6 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

sible to God for " the light which lights every man 
that comes into the world." Nay, for their nuptial 
acts they must account to God. 

Christendom has the light of nature, and the 
Bible in addition ; and is responsible accordingly. 
Blackstone says : "All law is founded on nature and 
revelation." Can Christians stand on legal errors, 
defects, or evasions? But law relates to different 
nations and states, which enact criminal, civil, and 
marital laws of their own ; yet differing and often 
conflicting with the laws of other states or nations, 
and with God's law. Laws in one place make cer- 
tain marriages and divorces proper and valid, which 
are ignored, nullified, or condemned elsewhere. In 
America and in England men may make or have 
conjugal, divorce, or other laws to suit their desire 
or convenience ; but they must settle with God on 
Bible grounds. We should love Christ's law on 
marriage, divorce, adultery, or temperance, however 
strict, as we Baptists cling to the law and order of 
Baptism and the Lord's Supper. 

Genuine Christians cheerfully adopt the sacred 
motto, "The Bible — the Bible alone is our reli- 
gion," in doctrine, in experience, and in practice. 
All valid laws and good acts agree with the Bible ; 
and so by grace we hope to stand, and at last hear 
the welcome plaudit, " Well done ! " 



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MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, AND ADULTERY. 

Instances: — King Henry VIII. of England, 
having seven wives, was excommunicated from the 
Romish Church by the Pope, and became the official 
Head of the Church of England, or Episcopal 
Church, and gloried in his shame, like many others. 

Napoleon Bonaparte I. of France, in his pride and 
selfishness, repudiates his lovely wife Josephine and 
marries another woman ; but God cursed him. What 
an example ! Beware ! 

The noted Rev. Dr. H , of England, disagreed 

with his long-loved wife, sought and engaged an- 
other woman before getting a divorce, and soon after 
marries her. Can he believe the Gospel? Is he fit 
to preach? 

Rev. Dr. L , of Rhode Island, America, mys- 
teriously gets a divorce from his innocent and un- 
suspecting wife, marries another, is tried, and soon 
spewed out of the church ; as all such should be. 
How many Achans yet hinder the churches? 

Mrs. M , of Massachusetts, lived somehow 

with her first husband till he suddenly died. She 
marries again, repels her husband, gets a divorce, 

marries a Rev. Dr. G , and soon flees West. 

Are they not adulterers? 

Rev. Dr. V , of New York, gets divorced from 

his first wife, marries again, and by some cause be- 
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comes separated, then marries a third wife, and she 
soon dies. Oh, " pleasures of sin ! " 

Rev. Dr. J , of Connecticut, marries a " rich 

widow," had trouble, got a divorce, and marries 
the girl implicated. Will God say "well done" at 
last? 

Rev. Mr. S , of New York, submits to charges 

by his wife, and aids her before the magistrate in 
getting a divorce, and soon the suspected girl be- 
comes his wife. Don't such deserve to be " stoned "? 

Rev. Dr. R , of Pennsylvania, is accused, 

goes to Indiana, lets his good wife secure a bill of 
divorce, then returns, marries the implicated girl, 
lives a while, and dies. " Adulterers God will 
judge." 

There are many more instances in high life, in 
the church and out of it ; and how many in middle 
and low life I But enough. 

CAUSES OF BAD MARRIAGES AND DIVORCE. 

1. Satan, depravity, lust, pride, temptation. 

2. Moral mania, novels, lies, theater, dance. 

3. Circuses, gaming, prodigality, drinking. 

4. Idleness, excesses, flirting, jealousy. 

5. Infidelity, free-lovism, conceit, crimes. 

6. Fashion, abortion, feticide, infanticide. 

7. Wrong education and society of both sexes. 



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See, for example, the following sad statistics : 
In 1878 the ratio of divorces to marriages was, 
viz. : In Massachusetts, as, one to nineteen ; in Ver- 
mont, one to seventeen ; in Rhode Island, one to 
fourteen ; in Connecticut, one to ten. Mirabile dictul 



A FEW NATURAL SUGGESTIONS. 

What alarming facts and figures ! What trifling 
regard to the sanctity of marital relations ! Then 
how unscriptural, unjust, invalid, and criminal are 
most of the divorces, the re-licenses, and the re-mar- 
riages of such ! Is not divorce a false remedy far 
worse than the original evil? 

England, on the subject of marnage and divorce, 
is much more strict than America. 

The Romish Church on this subject is generally 
more orthodox and close than Protestants. 

South Carolina is more scriptural and exclu- 
sive on marriage and divorce than any other of the 
United States. Will God settle with the "powers"? 
Oh, what records and trials at God's bar ! How 
then Jehovah's word will " make the ears of the guilty 
tingle ! " But let us hope and labor for a reformation, 
though fashion, passion, earth, or hell oppose ! 



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MARRIAGES WITH FEW OR NO DIVORCES. 

1. Marry in the Lord, yoke equally, vow, confide. 

2. Resist Satan, pride, flesh, anger, evil, world. 

3. If tied to an unbeliever, seek his salvation. 

4. Reject a divorced one while the other lives. 

5. Avoid myths, vice, crime, or signs of evil. 

6. Keep the Spirit in love, faith, work, trials. 

7. Be right with God, man, law, and conscience. 

Now may the Lord bless the efforts of the faith- 
ful, and reform the weak, weary, or unfortunate. 
What a heaven families might enjoy in Christ by 
strict obedience ! 

REMARKS ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. 

The Bible is our rule, and God is judge. If men 
sin before all, so they must be rebuked. Prove all 
things, and hold fast the good, true, and pure as gold 
tried in holy fire. Let us be faithful, and clear our 
skirts from sin and the blood of souls, and be pure 
in Christ. If any dislike their true -picture before 
the " Bible-class " and conscience, let them reform ; 
cr how will they fear to face the Great Judge ! 
Can civil law or authority that licenses liquor-selling, 
intemperance, gaming, lotteries, theaters, and bank- 
ruptcy, prove your marriage void? or your divorce 
valid? or a license to re-marry to be good while 
either party lives? or justify you as a Christian act- 



MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. ioi 

ing against the written law of God ? How will you 
escape condemnation? Or is your "desire father to 
the thought" and hope of rescue? 

How sin, lust, and pride do blunt and blind the 
moral sense, and pervert the body and the mind ! 
Christ says : " What therefore God joined together 
let not man put asunder." The wicked make di- 
vorce easy as marriage. How many professed Chris- 
tians, ministers, and members of churches, live in 
open neglect, or in criminal violation of God's law 
on marriage and divorce ! But what is any civil 
law or license good for without God's approval? 
Men may go to some parts of Europe and get diplo- 
mas, divorces, licenses to marry and re-marry, or 
live like libertines and "free lovers," and have almost 
anything they desire and pay for, with certain au- 
thorized indemnities. Nay, the wicked obtain 
some such conveniences nearer home. Oh, shame ! 
Will Sodom, Capernaum, or the heathen rise up in 
judgment and condemn us? 

The Books, and our acts, will be open at God's 
bar. 

Advice : — " Have no fellowship with the unfruit- 
ful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 
Avoid all signs of evil. Be not unequally yoked 
with unbelievers ; for what fellowship has righteous- 
ness with lawlessness? And what communion has 
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with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an 
unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple 
of God with idols? for we are the temple of the liv- 
ing God. Wherefore, come out from among them 
and be separate, saith the Lord ; and touch not the 
unclean ; and I will receive you." (2 Cor. vi. 14-17.) 
May the Lord make us victorious to the end ; and 
welcome us all as guests at the wedding-supper of 
the Lamb ! Amen. 



Lord's Prayer. — {Sweet Home.) 

Our Father in heaven, we hope as we pray, — 
Thy name be all hallowed, by night and by day ; 
And to Thy new kingdom, that we may all come, 
Thy will, as in heaven, on earth shall be done. 

Oh, give to us children the bread that we need, 
For this we ask daily, as humbly we plead ; 
Yea, so as forgiveness to others we show, 
O Father in heaven, Thy pardon bestow ! 

On each day's temptation, from evil or wrong, 
Lord, save and deliver, 'mid all our life long ; 
For Thine is the power, the glory, and love, — 
O Jesus, save, bless us, with Christians above ! 





CHAPTER VIII. 

SOCIAL MANNERS. 
THE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN. 

jgE is above a mean thing. He cannot stoop to 
mean fraud. He invades no secrets in the 
keeping of another. He betrays no secrets confided 
to his own keeping. He never stabs in the dark, 
or behind. He never struts in borrowed or unpaid- 
for plumage. He takes no selfish advantage of any 
man's mistakes. He uses no ignoble weapons in 
controversy. He is ashamed of false innuendoes. 
If by accident he comes into possession of his neigh- 
bor's counsels, he passes upon them the act of in- 
stant and total oblivion, or never divulges. He bears 
sealed packages without tampering with the wax. 
Papers not meant for his eye, whether they flutter in 
at his window, or lie open before him in unguarded 
exposure, are equally sacred to him. He professes 
no privacy of others, however the sentry may sleep. 
Bolts and bars, lock and keys, hedges and pickets, 
bonds and securities, notices to trespassers, are not 

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for him, but for the lawless. He may be trusted — 
himself out of sight — near the thinnest partition — 
anywhere. He buys no office; he sells none; he 
intrigues for none. He would rather fail of his 
rights than win them through dishonor, falsehood, 
or meanness. 

Politeness ofttimes need cost little or nothing, but 
yields a hundred-fold. How happy the truly polite 
gentleman or lady ! 

CHRISTIAN ETIQUETTE. 

i. Courtesy is a gift of nature, grace, and experi- 
ence, magnified by education and practice in the 
best society, living. 

2. Etiquette is not cold or stiff; but a hearty play of 
soul and body in felicitating others, according to 
the music of the " Golden Rule." 

3. The charms and attentions of politeness compel 
respect with manifold returns. It is innate, reflex, 
reciprocal, and mighty. 

4. Polite hosts or guests will never violate good 
rules of taste to gratify themselves, like men of the 
" filthy weed " on the street. 

5. The laws of reciprocity are formulated for use; 
and good society acquiesce in the fact — the rich 
or poor, white or colored, everywhere. 

6. Forms may vary in different cities, states, and 
countries, yet the principle is one — love, good- 
will, humanity, religion. 



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7. Promptness is duty in society or business, in re- 
ligion or domestic life. 

8. True manners respect age or superiority, the in- 
firm, decrepit, insane, or deficient. 

9. Ladies have the preference in civilities. So let 
them observe these rules in the cars and streets. 

10. Prefer to strangers, or foreign guests ; never 
neglect parents, the aged, or diffident. 

11. Be courteous to children always, for their good 
and yours ; for an example to others. 

12. The truly polite never indulge self at home, on 
the street, in the carriage, at the expense of others 
without their consent. 

13. Never seize, nor give others what is not yours 
to give, or be too liberal at other's expense. 

14. Love, wisdom, and power are kind and grate- 
ful — to the low or high, for little or much. 

15. Dress fitly for church, wedding, or any time. 

A polite mechanic in Philadelphia, Pa., secured 
the patronage of all Russia. So just by his civility 
he got the preference, and made a fortune for him- 
self and his firm. How good and profitable polite- 
ness is to all in society ! 

IMPOLITE THINGS AVOIDED. 

1. Loud, reckless, and boisterous laughter. 

2. Reading when others are talking or singing. 

3. Reading aloud in company, not being asked. 



106 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

4. Talking when others are reading or singing. 

5. Smoking, chewing, or spitting in-doors. 

6. Trimming the finger-nails in company. 

7. Leaving church before service is closed. 

8. Whispering, laughing, or eating in church. 

9. Gazing rudely, or sneering at strangers. 

10. Sitting when a stranger is without a seat. 

11. Want of reverence or respect for seniors. 

12. Correcting older persons, or your parents. 

13. Receiving presents without thanksgiving. 

14. Making yourself the hero of your own story. 

15. Laughing at any mistakes of others. 

16. Joking or jeering others in company. 

17. Commencing to talk before others finish. 

18. Answering questions being put to others. 

19. Beginning to eat as soon as you get to table. 

20. Not listening to what your speaker says. 

21. Making observations while one is speaking. 

22. Neglecting the humble and the children. 

23. Much face-praise, or fulsome flattery. 

24. Smoking in other's faces, anywhere. 

25. All kinds of profanity before others. 

26. Lying by words, looks, signs, or actions. 

The Lord direct and sanctify these hints to all ! 

MARITAL MANNERS. 

i. Marry in your own religion, and in the Lord. 
2. Never both be angry at once, nor give a cause. 



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3. Never taunt with a past mistake, nor of kin. 

4. Let a kiss go before every kind rebuke. 

5. Never allow a request to be often repeated. 

6. Let self-abnegation be the habit of both. 

7. " I forgot it " is never an acceptable excuse. 

8. A good wife is the great earthly blessing. 

9. A right husband is a timely, rich prize. 

10. If you must criticise, let it be in love. 

11. Make marriage a matter of moral judgment. 

12. Never make a remark at the other's expense. 

13. Give your warmest sympathy for each other. 

14. Marry into a family you have well known. 

15. If one is angry, let the other pray and kiss. 

16. Let each yield to the wishes of the other. 

17. Never contend in private, nor in company. 

18. Yours is mutual cultivation and usefulness. 

19. Neglect all the world for the other's good. 

20. Never speak loud or cross to each other. 

21. Marry different blood and temperament. 

22. Always leave home with loving last words. 

23. Deceive not ; the heart misled will not rest. 

24. Never find fault till one is committed. 

25. The mother molds the character of the child. 

26. A lovely, obedient wife controls her husband. 

27. Don't talk of sacrifices made for each other, but 
be like loving children and happy friends. 

28. Let your aid be whole-souled and free as air, 
like boys, girls, or families, feeling right. 



108 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

29. A hesitating, or grum yielding to the wishes of 
the other, grates upon a loving heart. 

30. Those who marry for physical traits, or selfish 
motives, will fail of happiness. 

31. Consult each other on the things within the 
sphere of your experience and operations. 

32. Those wedding for traits of mind or heart, sel- 
dom fail of perennial springs of joy. 

33. Never reflect on past actions, done with good 
motives and the best judgment. 

34. They are safer who marry from the standpoint 
of sentiment than emotions or passion. 

35. Graces of heart are a million more to domestic 
happiness than beauty in person or dress. 

36. Appeal to reason, conscience, and Bible, on all 
marital questions for decision. 

37. Politeness and mutual benevolence, like the ele- 
ments, the more you practice either the more 
you will enjoy and bless the world. 

38. True prosperity of life consists in faith, evinced 
by works. Faith in God, and faith to man. 

39. Man and woman oft wed the best or worst for- 
tune — superb, if right; a curse, if wrong, 
untold. 

Let not only the married, but also the single, se- 
lect from the above what can be applied to them- 
selves for profit and use ; and God bless and sanctify 
all for his glory and our prosperity ! 



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HINTS TO YOUNG HUSBANDS. 

Don't think when you have won a wife that you 
have also won a slave. 

Don't think that }^our wife has less feeling than 
your sweetheart. Her relationship to you is simply 
changed, not her nature. 

Don't think that you can dispense with all the 
little civilities of life toward her on marrying. She 
appreciates those things quite as much as other 
women. 

Don't be gruff and rude at home. Had you been 
that sort of fellow before marriage, the probabilities 
are that you would be sewing on your own buttons 
still. 

Don't make your wife feel that she is an encum- 
brance on you by giving her grudgingly. What 
she needs give as cheerfully as if it were a pleasure 
to do so. She will feel better, and so will you. 

Don't meddle with the affairs of the house under 
her charge. You have no more right to be poking 
your nose into the kitchen, than she has to walk into 
your place of business and give directions to your 
employees. 

Don't become offended, nor jealous, or blurt out 
slurs, if other gentlemen only duly admire and treat 
your wife politely and kindly, as you wish to be 
justly appreciated and regarded by ladies, and like 
ever to reciprocate the same freely. 



HO PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Now, if all these rules and suggestions were duly- 
observed, how near the Millennium we should live, 
and approximate heaven ! To mind the " Golden 
Rule," by faith in Jesus, would be our meat, drink, 
dress, wealth, and song, and make us, each, twain 
and all, one in Christ's love. 

CONVERSATION. 

One of the greatest gifts or accomplishments for 
a lady or gentleman is good powers of conversation 
and tact. To know how to talk or listen well with- 
out' apparent effort ; to use words and ideas appro- 
priately with good manners ; no lisping, simpering 
stammering tongue, nor carelessness or obtrusion — 
how mutually agreeable ! Good words and acts 
paint delightful images ; and the- heavenly feelings 
are engraved. 

BUSINESS CIVILITY. 

All true politeness is from God, nature, and the 
gospel. It is love, innate or deep-seated in the heart ; 
and is there acted out by wisdom, culture, and oppor- 
tunity. Never ask more for an article than it is 
really worth ; nor banter, depreciate, exaggerate, 
falsify, or deceive in any way ; but do equably, as 
you would be done by ; and with children, the poor, 
or ignorant, do as you deal with others. Have no 
"two prices" without due reasons. Wholesale or 
retail things honestly and promptly. By so doing 
you may mutually enjoy and confer blessings. 



SOCIAL MANNERS. Ill 

PROFESSIONAL COURTESY. 

The Clergyman should be a model in religion, 
in preaching, in civility, in private, in public, and 
always, — to the youth, poor, and ignorant ones, 
especially. 

Doctors may utilize medicine with the " stimulus 
of hope " ; but they should never deceive, beget dis- 
trust, nor take undue advantage. 

Lawyers and Statesmen may do much good, and, 
like others, should guard against their peculiar 
temptations ; look to God for their sufficiency ; con- 
form to the Bible ; bless and be blessed evermore. 



i. I'm a pilgrim, and a soldier, 

Christ, my Captain, 's gone above; 
Oh for grace to make us bolder, 
By his spirit, word, and love ! 

Chorus. Breathe, O breathe, celestial Spirit. 
Breathe upon us from on high. 

2. Oh for grace to win and conquer; 

Love and faith for jubilee ; 
Till the preacher, Christian, pilgrim, 
Shout with saints in victory. 

3. Abba Father, God, Son, Savior, 

Holy Spirit, three in one, 
Give salvation to the hearer, 

Souls to fill our starry crown ! — E. A. 




CHAPTER IX. 

AMERICAN FREEDMEN. 

" Princes sJiall come out of Egypt ; Ethiopia shall soon stretch 
out her hand to God" — Ps. vi. 31. 

IBERTY and slavery have often alternated in 
the ancient and modern conditions of man- 
kind. Since Adam's fall from freedom to bondage, 
Satan and sin have been the deceptive supplanters 
of peace, union, and liberty, and the seductive pro- 
curing cause of war, slavery, poverty, and misery. 

God, the Bible, nature and grace, with obedience 
to law and gospel, inspire hope, motive, and cour- 
age, and ensure life, liberty, and the pursuits of hap- 
piness. Christ makes us free. From the days of 
Abraham, Satan and slavery, by their vile minions, 
have run riot, spreading crime and carnage, de- 
pressing, kidnapping, or enslaving human beings at 
home and abroad. What an outrage ! 

But, horrible to tell ! civilized and Christian na- 
tions, — England and America, — for lust and lucre, 
till recently, promoted, aided, and shared this in- 
human, ungodly traffic and cruel doom. Behold 

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AMERICAN FREEDMEN. 1 1 3 

the slave-traders, slave-ships, of divers nations, 
along the African coast, laden with rum, tobacco, 
snuff, trinkets, arms and ammunition, to exchange 
for negro slaves — God's image ! 

SLAVE PIRACY. 

Oh, horrors ! See the poor African man, woman, 
and child, stolen and torn from their native sunny 
clime, home, friends, and hopes ; all bound, barred, 
bought, sold, shipped, stowed between-decks, lying 
in their filth, fed, aired, and treated more basely 
than brutes. 

Imagine, if you can, hundreds of poor, weak, 
weeping, naked, hungry, sick, wretched human 
beings, packed like spoons, left side down, between 
decks of three feet clear, unable to stand up, no 
beds or utensils for the sick or well, fed, watered, 
sunned, cleaned at times, jaded or dying on the 
cruel passage, or surviving and hailing the western 
world, doomed to abject slavery. Oh, "sum of 
all villainies ! " — God's image on an auction-block, 
sold to the highest bidder for sordid gain or carnal 
lust! Oh, depravity and shame, where is your 
blush ! But God will rise up and rule. Alas, alas ! 
dear England and America, where were your 
thoughts, reason, heart, conscience, humanity, or 
Christianity? Oh, the horrors of the "Guinea 
coast," the big, mysterious skimps of whited sail, 
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114 PEARLS OF WORLDS, 

flags, signs, and great names — English, Ameri- 
can, or some other — in bold relief! Then the 
middle passage, the auction, slave-ship, and breed- 
ing system ! 

AMERICAN SLAVERY. 

Lo, the poor, simple, friendless, and abused ne- 
groes, cast by cargoes and thousands on a strange 
coast, exhibited and auctioneered in market; en- 
slaved wholly, married or single, physically and 
morally ; often forced to marry or do worse with or 
without semblance of law or gospel, and separated 
or sold in the same vile way, — - mixed up with lust 
and filthy lucre, in the luxuries of the " bleaching 
system." How honor, labor, morals, and marriage 
were degraded ! But soon the Eastern and more 
Northern States, one after another, repented, or 
rent asunder the shackles of their slaves, and let the 
oppressed go free, thus washing their hands of the 
sin. The prayers of the pious negroes South, and 
the whites North, reached in focal union the God of 
armies, and liberty came. 

' The Colonization Society was formed to gradually 
emancipate the slaves and make them missionaries 
in Africa. It was popular; has done, and is doing, 
much good. Both North and South had hoped for 
the success of the society ; the former, that it would 
finally abolish slavery ; the latter, that it would, as 
Henry Clay said, " serve to drain off the surplus and 



AMERICAN FREEDMEN. 115 

troublesome free people of color, or any who might 
be manumitted by their masters." But each were in 
turn somewhat disappointed. And no wonder ! 
You might as well try to dip dry the Dead Sea with 
a teaspoon as to have diminished slavery, and to 
convert Africa in this way. 

EMANCIPATION. 

Jehovah has all the honor of it. Not Abolitionists, 
such as Garrison and Phillips, who seemed mainly 
to agitate or aggravate it. But the pious ones : 
white and colored prayed ; the wise used means. 
Abraham Lincoln was elected President amid sec- 
tional conflicts, Southern treachery, and warlike 
forebodings. The crisis is at hand. 

The South, still boasting of her "chivalry, cotton- 
king, peculiar institution," wealth, power, heroism, 
and independence, threaten, foment, and make civil 
war. Oh, the writing on the wall — "Mene, mene, 
tekel, ufharsin " — makes them tremble ! They 
covet all; hazard all; rebel, lose all; and fall. 
They destroyed themselves. God let them. 

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward did not 
" intend to disturb slavery," but tried to conciliate, 
satisfy, and divert the South, or save by offers the 
threatened Union from a fratricidal, civil, bloody, 
fatal war. But all overtures are proudly despised. 
The hotheads of the South began the war by sea 



Il6 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

and land, till soon the cooler brethren all joined 
in. The North is soon aroused to drill and fight. 
Battles and many lives are lost. Hopes and the 
Union tremble in the balance to their base. God 
hears prayer : Abraham Lincoln is compelled to 
change his course or policy, as a mere " military 
necessity," and declares all the " slaves free ! " 
What a jubilee ! After three billions of money and 
a half million or more of precious lives were lost in 
the war, Union and liberty we sing ! 

TRIALS OF NEGROES. 

The South, losing many lives, much money, 
honor, caste, and all her slaves, feels poor and be- 
reft after her suicidal treason. Some few noble, 
pious souls, who withstood the rebellion till over- 
come, now survive to bless God and the free. 

The freedmen, of all mixtures of blood and Mend- 
ings of colors, without preparation, education, prop- 
erty, home, or adequate protection, have, under 
God, as free citizens, done wonders. Braving pri- 
vations, opposition, treachery, and seduction, many 
have acquired property, homes, learning, honor, 
and happiness. Despite the vile relics of slavery, — 
rum, tobacco, sloth, lust, or games, — they have, as 
a people, behaved and succeeded nobly. Behold 
their numerous dwellings, churches, schools, acad- 
emies, colleges, seminaries, and universities ! What 



AMERICAN FREED MEN. 117 

hath God wrought ! Nay, their thousands of farms, 
stocks and herds ; their many mechanics, traders, 
officers, lawyers, statesmen, teachers, professors, 
doctors, and preachers, all testify to progress. 

The freedmen have battled with severe trials for 
fifteen years ; and with the " hard times " for five 
years past, amid losses by foes, false friends, and 
broken " savings-banks," — yet they have prospered, 
and gained millions. Trusting God, they work, 
hope, and rejoice. 

SLAVISH REMAINS. 

The freedmen have inherited, absorbed, and natu- 
ralized many of the crimes, low vices, and vile 
habits of slavery and the whites, but are slow to 
find, adopt, or imitate any virtues from the old 
school. Their reformers say, "Whiskey, tobacco, 
snuff, lust, theft, crime, falsehood, and superstition 
are yet too common and bad." But with inbred de- 
pravity, and surrounded with divers temptations, it 
seems a miracle of grace that sinners have not done 
worse, and that Christians have done so well ! 
Would to God the "bleaching" were stopped. Im- 
provements in living, morals, and religion are ob- 
vious on every hand. If we could shut up the 
seducing, drinking, tobacco, dance, and gaming 
places, — wisdom, wealth, health, and happiness 
would abound. 



Il8 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

freedmen's outlook. 

Prophecies, signs, reasons, and experience indi- 
cate a better day for the African race. By grace, 
through faith, their success is ensured. From the 
primary school to the university, the students, male 
and female, enjoy the instructions suitable for de- 
velopment and usefulness at home, in teaching or a 
profession, as good citizens, Christians, or mission- 
aries, to bless America or sunny Africa for life. 

The colored Baptists are numerous, have the 
strong gospel doctrines, primitive ordinances, and 
adopt the order, principles, and practice of the gos- 
pel, and by God's Spirit, would be efficient mission- 
aries to Ethiopia. 

NEGRO EXODUS. 

Dear Watch-Tower : As I have just returned 
from my Southern campaign, you ask me to say 
something about the recent colored exodus. I will 
gladly do so, in brief. A feeling of dissatisfaction 
has been working like leaven for years, increasing 
and extending among the freedmen. They have 
had their agents at work collecting facts in all the 
Southern States, and reporting at headquarters. 
They counsel, talk, plan, and execute, more or 
less secretly, as they think best. I have visited all 
the Southern States — preaching to all, but mostly 
to the colored people — within forty years, and 
especially for six years past, in winters. 



AMERICAN FREEDMEN. 



II 9 



The negroes say, generally, that they feel op- 
pressed by the whites — in person, property, civil 
and political liberties, and the pursuit of happiness. 
They say : " We are robbed of all our just and equal 
rights, except in a few instances, under certain cir- 
cumstances." The exodus is begun all over the 
South in the masses, though it is not equally devel- 
oped. The colored race have some secretiveness, 
but tell all to their friends. The freedmen say : 
"We feel in many places the insecurity of life, 
liberty, and property ; also, the insecurity of the 
virtues of our wives and daughters amid the temp- 
tations and importunities of white men." Notice the 
testimony and facts before the committee of Con- 
gress the past winter, if you wish more evidence ; 
then read the recent address of the Rev. Dr. H. H. 
Garnet, of your city. What facts and eloquence ! 
Many of the colored men say they want to get away 
from the South as the Israelites did from Egypt, and 
as Lot wanted to get his wife and daughters out of 
Sodom. E. A. 

No wonder at the exodus ! The colored man has 
soul, patriotism, duties, and destiny. He feels se- 
verely his defects, trials, and disadvantages. You 
and Congress may ask " why he leaves home, or 
the sunny South?" The causes are patent; the 
facts are alike evident, as the testimony of both 



120 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

whites and blacks of the South were given and 
summed up at Washington before competent judges : 
"ill-treatment." Manifold facts and reasons justify 
their exodus, as that of the Israelites to Canaan, — 
God leading ! I write from a personal acquaintance 
of forty years in the South, preaching and visiting 
all the States. 

MINISTRY OF FREEDMEN. 

They have improved wonderfully in education 
and manners, and preach earnestly with marked 
success. But many in poor small churches are yet 
very sadly deficient, working some, and studying 
less. Some of these are, however, quite eloquent 
and effective. 

RELIGION AND MORALITY. 

After observation South for forty years, I can 
safely say the colored Baptists are as sincere, quite 
as generous and devout as the whites ; and the 
whites there say, "The negroes are as pious, or 
even more so." They often tell very bright expe- 
riences, have no fears, make great sacrifices, and 
are generally very orthodox. They are mostly un- 
educated, gregarious, openly talkative, not easily 
offended, but very emotional and expressive. Their 
sympathies and moral feelings are similar to the 
whites of the same class, but stronger ; and their 
staple morality will compare well, I think, with the 



AMERICAN FREEDMEN. 121 

whites. Of course, they have not yet the same fa- 
cilities for excess, nor the refinements, or means to 
evade and cover up observation. Negroes may 
evince many petty blemishes of character, but do 
better every way, according to what they know or 
have, than their opposers ; and are more benevolent, 
industrious, humane, and polite, or less selfish and 
vindictive generally, than their caste critics. They 
give much for churches, preaching, missions, benev- 
olent societies ; support their sick, poor, dying mem- 
bers, and bury their own dead, and do not cast them 
on the town, as some whites do. 

BAPTIST INSTITUTIONS. 

I shall notice those established for the colored 
race, especially. We have at the South nine high 
institutions of learning, viz. : the Wayland Univer- 
sity, at Washington, D. C. ; the Richmond Insti- 
tute, at Richmond, Va. ; the Shaw University, at 
Raleigh, N. C. ; the Benedict Institute, at Colum- 
bia, S. C. ; the Atlanta Institute, at Atlanta, Ga. ; 
the Institute at Selma, Ala. ; the Natchez Seminary, 
at Natchez, Miss. ; the Nashville Seminary, at 
Nashville, Tenn. ; and the Leland University, at 
New Orleans, La. We have also many colored 
schools and academies of a high order, and good 
libraries, professors, teachers, and apparatus, with 
good newspapers and periodicals. Other denomina- 



122 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

tions have many schools and liberal institutions for 
the colored people. The colored Baptist brethren 
number .about half the colored Christians South. 
Their Sunday schools and mission stations are nu- 
merous, and their prospects bright and promising. 

ADVICE TO FREEDMEN. 

For forty years I have preached and published 
good words to your people — in Delaware, Wash- 
ington, D. C, all over the Southern States, and 
given preaching and my " revival books " by thou- 
sands. I have more to give you, and shall leave 
thousands to you by my last will. 

Be pious, pure, honest, and temperate, by faith, 
word, and deed, and God will bless us here and in 
eternity. 

CHRISTIAN RAILWAY. 

i. Salvation's way the Lord has made ; 

By Truth and Blood sure " rails " were laid ; 
From death to life the " line " extends 
To Heaven eternal, where it ends. 

2. O Bible — chart, hope, compass, guide! — 
" Free pass, good fare, ensurance " wide ! 
'Midst valleys deep and dangers near, — 
Almighty Grace is " engineer." 

3. Jehovah's " fire " — high M motive power ! " — 
The Spirit, " steam ; " our " engine" prayer ; 



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Love draws the "train," while all who ride 
Quit sin, obey, in Christ abide. 

4. Sinners, repent at "station first," 
Trust Jesus now, " Conductor," best ! 
On " Cars " have }^ou no " fare" to pay, 
For Christ, our Savior, "freed" the way. 

5. The Gospel "rings" — O gracious time ! 
Come, list with us, "'board " Canaan's line ; 
Give Christ your heart, flee every sin, — 
God's " Lightning Train " will take you in ! 

6. Come, "rich or poor," or colored class, — 
Through Gate and Way so " strait " to pass ; 
With Cross, by faith, we'll seize the " prize," 
Gain " crowns " above, shout Jesus' praise. 

E. Andrews. 



CHAPTER X. 



TEMPERANCE. 



"Thou shalt not kill." — Exodus xx. 13. 

gEjOD speaks from the heavens, and earth, and 

$$ his benign providences, promoting virtue and 
religion, and rebuking vice, crime, and infidelity. 

Man, as a moral agent, forms his own character, 
and seals his future destiny ; while law and con- 
science approve or condemn, according to his times, 
endowments, and character. This doctrine is truly 
illustrated and confirmed all over the world. 

Men have the Bible or Nature's light, or both ; 
and are responsible, judged, and rewarded by the 
eternal laws. 

But to the text : How awfully positive and imper- 
ative it is ! God thunders, Mount Sinai trembles, 
Moses hears on the mountain top the " Holy Law," 
and gives the Decalogue to the Israelites and to us. 

The Bible, superadded to the book and law of 
Nature, we now have a revelation of time and eter- 
nity ; a law as a schoolmaster to bring us from sin to 
Christ. Life and immortality are brought to life by 

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TEMPERANCE. 1 25 

the gospel. Love to God and man are absolutely 
required, and urged by motives drawn from heaven, 
earth, and hell. Such authority, law, and teaching 
have power with men. 

The blazing text thunders in the ears of sinners, 
murderers, suicides, and abettors : " Thou shall not 
kill!''' God forbids, threatens, condemns, and pun- 
ishes the guilty. The sword of " Damocles " now 
hangs over their heads. 

Intemperance destroys both soul and body for- 
ever. The principals, and abettors, and victims in this 
bloody crime cannot escape their retributions . " When 
God makes inquisition for blood," he will find the 
criminals and the spots on them. No escape ! 

Motives and means of destroying men are numer- 
ous. You may kill intentionally by your own hand, 
or by proxy ; by letting loose an " evil beast," known 
to be such ; or by criminal carelessness ; and be pun- 
ished accordingly. 

The dealers in intoxicating drinks, patrons, and 
victims, are blood-guilty. They know that alcohol 
is a deadly poison, and naturally works and drives 
men to destruction by the cup, as cruelly as the 
vicious beast madly pushes, gores, and kills with 
his horns. So, with God, they must settle for put- 
ting the intoxicating cup to a brother, as truly as for 
taking or endangering a man's life by a known fero- 
cious animal. 



126 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Beware, ye tempted men and criminals ! Be not 
deceived. "Whoso sheds man's blood, by man 
shall his blood be shed." All implicated in the 
vice and crime of intemperance should be alarmed 
and reformed immediately. 

What ! men made in the image of God now so 
fallen as to live by ruin and death, like the hyena, 
or the blood-sucker, or moth, on society! Alas! 
that so many are decoyed, or are such willing, 
suicidal dupes. But, "be sure their own sins will 
find them out." 

Now, brother-man, you are either for or against 
God ; for or against the cause of true temperance ; 
acquitted or condemned as a principal or an accom- 
plice in the act, either before or after the fact. How 
is it? Guilty, or not guilty? 

Sin is the transgression of law, natural, moral, 
or spiritual ; a violation and perversion of the bless- 
ings of creation, providence, and revelation. You 
cannot serve two masters — Christ and the Devil ; 
nor be judged or rewarded, but for yourself. All 
acts and motives will come up at God's bar ; but he 
will not say to you, "Well done," unless you have 
done so. Oh, prepare to meet God ! Escape the 
blood of souls ! 

Temperance or intemperance, Christians or unbe- 
lievers, we shall share with angels and saints in 
heaven, or with reprobates, drunkards, and devils in 
hell, as we are fitted for one place or the other. 



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"Adam, where art thou? " Oh, he is skulking in 
the garden in the dark, and falls under a curse. 
" Cain, where is thy brother? " Oh, how his blood 
cries to God for vengeance, and a mark is on his 
forehead ! "Achan, where is the stolen gold wedge 
and Babylonish garments?" See him stoned to 
death. 

God watches you, liquor sellers and users ; and 
will soon make inquisition for blood. Will you say, 
"Am I my brother's keeper?" Oh, how like bloody 
Cain you now reply ! But " the mark " is on you. 

O ye rum-men ! " turn ye, turn ye, for why will 
ye die?" You were made to love God and man. 
Not to sin against God ; nor to live by destroying 
mankind, like the wolves or cannibals. " Love ful- 
fills the law, and works no ill to his neighbor." 
O man, where is your reason, conscience, humanity, 
your Bible, or God ! to be a human curse rather 
than a friend or blessing? "Woe unto him who 
gives his neighbor drink, that puts the bottle to him 
and makes him drunken, that he may see his naked- 
ness." Look now at this, ye robbers of money, 
health, honor, homes, and happiness ! See, too, the 
cowering, suicidal victim — eaten up. "But God 
will not be mocked " ; you must " eat the fruit of 
your own doings." You have your orders and 
warning. But will men of capacity for doing good 
prostitute all their powers to intemperance ! Can 



128 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

they then escape the " curse " at God's bar? Will 
any such soul-killers hear God say, "Well done"? 
No, no, never ! " Be wise for thyself; if thou 
scornest, thou alone must bear it." The trafficker 
and tippler shall each bear their respective guilt and 
reward. They now record their own doings. 

" Because sentence against an evil work is not 
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of 
men is fully set in them to do evil." So it has been, 
and is, with distillers, sellers, givers, and users of 
intoxicating beverages. And on they go, "filling 
up their cups of iniquity," soon "to drink it to the 
dregs." Compared with the eternal loss of the soul, 
the millions of money and temporalities lost by 
intemperance, are as nothing. Oh, bloody crime, 
guilt, shame of murdering man's soul ! 

But who can compute the infinite millions lost? — 
of years, fortunes, talents, honors, positions, char- 
acters, homes, comforts, and lives lost? Nay, myriads 
of times worse than lost. A destructive legacy of vice, 
crime, misery, and death, are continually bequeathed 
to a tempted, greedy, thirsty, posterity ! 

"What will you profit, if you gain the whole 
world and lose your own soul?" Think, look, and 
judge. Will you, O intoxicators, sell your birthrights 
for a mess of vile, blood-red pottage? How foolish, 
wicked, and cruel to live on the "fool's pence," the 
miseries of families, curse of society, or sum of all 
villainies ! 



TEMPERA NCE. 1 29 

Repent — "right about face," like a " Delevan " ; 
and live for salvation ! Do not plead " liberty," or 
"license from the board of excise." What, I ask, are 
laws, rules, permits, or licenses, against God and the 
Bible, valid? What is legalized gambling, bank- 
ruptcy, extortion, marriage, divorce, and adultery, or 
intemperance, in opposition to God's laws? All 
laws not in accord with God's laws are null and 
void ; nay, snares of fallen men and cunning de- 
vices of the Devil. Beware! "Let the wicked 
forsake their way, and reform." Let the reformers 
take courage and press on from victory to victory, 
and to final triumph. God with us, right and con- 
science, we are a majority; and must succeed, with 
starry crowns. 

I have no time, space, or mind for analyzing or 
discussing the technicalities and different views of 
the "wine question." Neither will I detain you with 
labored and minute calculations, or formulated sta- 
tistics of the infinite expense, loss, evils, crimes, and 
miserable deaths by intemperance. This depart- 
ment I leave to more expert chemists, linguists, 
theorists, and skilled statisticians. See the sermon 
on Intemperance in my "Revival Sermons." It is, 
or ought to be, sufficient for a Christian, the lover 
of truth and humanity, to know that wine is a 
mocker ; strong drink is raging ; that wine-drink- 
ing was forbidden of God ; the spiritual Israelites 
9 



130 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

were abstainers ; John the Baptist was an example ; 
Christ and Paul enjoined strict temperance. Yea, 
in all things : "Whether, therefore, ye eat, or drink, 
or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 
Here is a temperance creed good enough for a Bap- 
tist or Christian platform. Love is my motive 
power, truth my armor, and the godly my fellow- 
helpers in the gospel cause of temperance. My ob- 
ject is the salvation of men, and the glory of Christ. 
I would be like John, Jesus, and Paul in spirit, prin- 
ciple, and practice. Behold Paul would eat no flesh 
nor drink wine, if it caused his brother to offend. 
Self-denial is commanded by Christ and the apos- 
tles ; and we must have the same spirit, motives, 
and practice, or not be disciples of Christ ! 

Intemperance is alarmingly the bane of society, 
a disgrace to the nation, and curse to the world. 
Behold our God says, "Thou shalt not kill ! " But 
what have we, society, churches, legislators, rulers, 
or nations, or all, ever done to rebuke or conquer 
the fell destroyer? Comparatively nothing. Shame 
on us ! Let us now, by faith, light our torch anew 
in heaven, take the panoply of the gospel, talk, 
print, pray, preach, persuade by law and all long- 
suffering and doctrine, to secure the life and salva- 
tion of souls ; the conversion of guilty sinners of all 
classes to Christ ; to seek by all possible means, 
social, moral, religious, and legal, to rescue the 



TEMPERANCE. 131 

venders of strong drink and the fallen victims ! Will 
the principals or abettors of drunkenness, the legal- 
izes, the licensed, or patrons of murder, stand up 
and plead the bloody " excise law or license " at 
God's bar, to shield their blood-red souls, to save 
them from the guilt of manslaying or hell? No, 
never ! 

Oh, then, let us Christians, ministers, citizens, 
women, and godly workers, go forth ; sound the 
toxin of alarm ; raise the temperance and reform 
flag ; give the pledge ; point sinners to the Cross ; 
give good counsel, a "tract," a prayer, and leave 
their cases and their cure with God. We believe 
Christ's constraining love is the soul, the heart; the 
centrifugal and centripetal power in this reform ; 
the center and circle of heaven and of all reform 
on earth ; that the gospel is the mighty armor of 
warfare ; and the truly righteous are the chosen 
heroes of victory, for ushering in the glorious mil- 
lennial day ! But our God decrees, overrules, and 
ordains that the " earth shall help the woman ; be 
hewers of wood and drawers of water for his people." 
So " the wrath of man shall be made to praise God ; " 
and all things ever work together for the good of 
those who love God — " the heirs of Christ and in- 
heritors of the kingdom." 

While preaching and using gospel power, let us 
pray the Lord to bless a jurist's well-formulated — 



132 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

THIRTY REASONS. 

"I will use gospel and moral suasion, also urge as 
our Thesis and animus for the practical enforce- 
ment of the doctrine, that the sale of intoxicating 
drinks as a beverage should be prohibited by law, 
because : — i. They deprive men of their reason for 
the time being. 2. They despoil men of their high- 
est intellectual strength. 3. They foster and en- 
courage every species of immorality. 4. They bar 
the progress of civilization and religion. 5. They 
destroy the peace and happiness of millions of families. 

6. They reduce many virtuous wives and children. 

7. They cause many thousands of murders. 8. 
They prevent all reformation of character. 9. They 
render abortive the strongest resolutions. 10. The 
millions of property expended in them are lost. 11. 
They cause the majority of cases of insanity. 12. 
They destroy both the body and the soul. 13. They 
burden sober people with millions of paupers. 14. 
They cause immense expenditures to prevent crime. 

15. They cost sober people immense sums in charity. 

16. They burden the country with enormous crime. 

17. Because moderate drinkers want the temptation 
removed. 18. Drunkards want the opportunity re- 
moved. 19. Sober people want the nuisance re- 
moved. 20. Taxpayers want the burden removed. 
21. The prohibition would save thousands now fall- 
ing. 22. The sale exposes our persons to insult. 



TEMPERANCE. 133 



23. The sale exposes our families to destruction. 

24. The sale upholds the vicious and idle at the ex- 
pense of the industrious and virtuous. 25. The sale 
subjects the sober to great oppression. 26. It takes 
the sober man's earnings to support the drunkard. 
27. It subjects numberless wives to untold suffer- 
ings. 28. It is contrary to the Bible. 29. It is con- 
trary to common sense. 30. We have a right to rid 
ourselves of the burden." 

ADVICE TO THE YOUNG. 

" Begin life, young men, with an extreme dread 
of intoxicating drink. There is ground for alarm. 
Drunkenness is fearfully prevalent. Myriads and 
myriads sink every year into the drunkard's grave, 
and lower still, into the drunkard's hell. One-half 
of the lunacy, two-thirds of the pauperism, and 
three-fourths of the crime of society, are said to 
spring from this desolating habit. Beware, then, 
of this dreadful appetite and propensity. Be afraid 
of it. Consider yourselves liable to it. Abandon 
all self-confidence. Avoid everything that leads to 
drinking, theaters, or debauch. 

"Abjure tobacco in every shape. Shun bad com- 
pany. Never cross the threshold of the tavern for 
the purpose of conviviality. Practice total absti- 
nence. All the drunkards that are, or ever have 
been, were moderate men once. I do most earnestly 



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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



entreat you to abstain from all intoxicating drinks. 
You do not need them for health, and to take them 
for gratification is the germ of inebriety. Total ab- 
stinence will conduce to health, to economy, and to 
prosperity and religion. 

" I reflect with unutterable grief upon many young 
men who entered life with the brightest prospects. 
But they went to the tavern and theater, and then 
to the brothel. They became dissipated, extrava- 
gant, idle. Unhappy youths ! I know what they 
might have been — respectable tradesmen, prosper- 
ous merchants, honorable members of society. I 
know what they are — bloated rakes, discarded part- 
ners, uncertificated bankrupts, miserable vagrants, 
a burden to their friends, a nuisance to the commu- 
nity, and a torment to themselves." E. C. R. 

THE CONCLUSION. 

My dear Brethren : This chapter, with these 
reasons, seems valid and exhaustive. 

You see I have treated of intoxicants, in whatever 
form, as drink; but there are other kinds; viz., 
opium, tobacco, chloral, or absinthe-using, and glut- 
tony, with other contraband habits and excesses I 
have reserved for other chapters and lessons. 

"Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of 
good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and 
the God of love and peace shall be with you." 



TEMPERANCE. 1 35 

"Strive for the prize, be temperate in all things ; " 
preach and practice by motives of love, humanity, 
salvation, and rewards ; and give God all the glory 
of our success and salvation, when peace, purity, 
love, temperance — the religion of Christ — shall fill 
the world. 



Ringing, knocking, Christ is standing, — 
Waiting, waiting — oh, come in ! — 

Angel, King, God, great Redeemer, . 
Comes to save a world from sin. 

O my soul ! for such a Savior, 

• Now, by grace, unbolt the door. 

Knocking, knocking — oh, He's calling! 

Waiting, waiting — Love to men ! 
But the heart is hard to open, 

Barred with pride and unbelief; — 
With its vain and sinful clinging 

Round self-merits, for relief. 

Knocking, knocking — hear him pleading, 
Waiting, waiting, bleeding, wet! 

Lo ! His pierced hand, still knocking, 
Brings us life and food, so sweet ! 

O my heart, thy Savior welcome, — 
Feast with saints at Jesus' feet ! 







CHAPTER XI. 

TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 

Lay a fart all jilt kiness" — James i. 21. 







jHE Gospel enjoins total abstinence from all 
§$§ impurity, intemperance, or sin. We have no 
license or right to commit one single sin rather than 
all sins. Sin is of the devil — the original liar, mur- 
derer, and demagogue in all kinds of wickedness ; 
"leading captive all sinners." Satan sits in their 
"heart, and from it are the issues of life." Christ 
dwells in the heart of the pure; and they are known 
by their fruits — good works. Are we pure, tem- 
perate, true and good — or are any of us joined to 
ungodliness? Clean or filthy, temperate or intemper- 
ate? With God and Christians, or with the enemy? 
All our names, works, and rewards are recorded. 
Whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we 
are commanded "to do all to God's glory." Oh, "the 
pleasures of sin are but for a season ! " But how, 
or what say you? Or what will God say at last? 
I have noticed elsewhere "strong drink." I will 
(Z). V.) now notice other "vile habits." 

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TOBACCO HABITS. 

Tobacco is a noxious plant, a rank poison ; and 
the habit of chewing, smoking, or snuffing it is filthy, 
vile, and vulgar. God forbids it. The common use 
of this nauseous narcotic is a relic of depravity, 
unnatural, repulsive, and condemned by all really 
polite, wise, pious, and undefiled gentlemen and 
ladies. It is offensive, injurious, abusive, unclean, 
a wanton waste of money, time, and power ; and 
tends to drinking and death. John Quincy Adams 
confesses to the bad effects of tobacco on himself for 
thirty years, till he reformed ; and exhorts others to 
so reform, saying, " It will add five years to my life." 
He preserved his age, mind, and morals. Dr. Nott, 
my old teacher in Union College, said: "Young 
men, I struggled hard with tobacco, and conquered ; 
but I have no doubt that I have cut short my life 
ten years by the use of the vile weed." It did tell 
on his last days, in body and mind. Rev. Drs. 

N , S , W , I , D , and Revs. 

A , T , B , H , and other eminent 

divines, were addicted to the use of this narcotic, and 
so, as friends say and regret, cut short their useful- 
ness or days, and much more. Oh, the bad exam- 
ple ! A sad legacy to posterity. 

Rev. Drs. M and K smoked till they 

were as black as a mummy, and could do so no 



138 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

longer. The brethren spoke of it and grieved for 
them. The superintendent of "The New York 
Asylum for the Insane " says : " Tobacco enervates 
the body and precipitates the mind into the vortex 
of insanity more than spirituous liquors." Dr. Wa- 
terhouse, and doctors of eminence say: "Tobacco is 
a great cause of heart-disease, paralysis, consump- 
tion, infantile weakness, and mortality." 

General Smyth says : "Tobacco impairs intellect- 
ual vigor, producing imbecility and indecision." 

Physicians of Paris say: "Paralysis increases in 
proportion to the using of tobacco." 

A convention of regular physicians has decided 
that "near half as many die of tobacco as of drink : " 
forty thousand now dying yearly of tobacco, and a 
hundred thousand of liquors ! 

The " S. T. Pilgrim " says : "Tobacco befouls the 
breath, benumbs the sensibilities, is an expensive 
vice, contrary to purity, defiling God's temple, and, 
for a minister, a most silly and wicked thing." 

Dr. Chapman says, " he knows of tobacco effects 
resembling delirium tremens." 

Dr. Rush says : " Tobacco moderately used makes 
headache, dyspepsia, tremens, and vertigo." 

Drs. Warren and Muzzy say: "Tobacco impairs 
digestion, weakens the stomach and taste." 

Dr. Adam Clarke says : " The same word in Ben- 
galee means both ? to drink' and 'to smoke.'" 



TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 1 39 

Dentists say: "Tobacco injures the teeth, gums, 
and mouth of whites, negroes, or Indians." 

In Boston, Mass., in the days of my youth, it was 
a penal offense to smoke or to swear on the street. 
Is it not as bad and impolite now as then? and every- 
where an evil? What a crime, waste, bad example, 
shame, and curse ! 

BURNING FACTS. 

To a gentleman (?) said his doctor: "Smoking 
in the nursery, you killed your young babe by your 
poisonous fumes." How tobacco impoverishes soul, 
mind, heart, body, wealth, credit, example, com- 
pany, parents, children, posterity, church, and the 
world ! 

King James I. passed an edict against the use of 
tobacco, saying : " It was a lively image and pattern 
of hell ; that it had all the parts and vices of the 
world ; made men drunk and high in the head ; 
bewildered and bewitched them so that they could 
not quit the smoke ; that it was a stinking, loath- 
some thing ; and that its use was a sin against God ; 
harmful to the victim's brain, and dangerous to his 
lungs." 

The Congregatwnalist says : " Smoking in the 
streets is the skunk of civilization." Oh ! 

Bishop James says, "his brethren pay a tax of 
$2,000,000 yearly for tobacco." It is said the "Amer- 



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ican churches pay $25,000,000 yearly for tobacco, 
or five times as much as they do to convert all the 
heathen world." What a burning shame ! 

They say New York city pays daily for tobacco 
$50,000 ; and that the United States pay yearly for 
tobacco $70,000,000. Great Britain pays yearly for 
tobacco $150,000,000; and how much more for 
brandy, wine, and beer? By such habits they con- 
fess weakness or poverty of soul, as well as of body 
and mind. And no wonder that so many of her 
clergy and gentlemen have gout and rheumatism ! 

MORE TESTIMONY. 

Dr. Muzzy killed a number of cats by putting one 
or two drops of tobacco-oil to their tongues ; so did 
Dr. Rheese. 

The Indians poison their arrows with tobacco in 
war. 

Dr. Rush tells us of a man afflicted with tremors 
and impaired memory by taking snuff; and "by Dr. 
B. Franklin's advice left off the filthy habit and re- 
covered." 

Dr. Solomon says : " More die of apoplexy in one 
year since tobacco came into use than in a hundred 
years before." 

The London Medical Gazette says : " Tobacco- 
smoking depresses, excites, is a sedative, cause of 
trembling, nervous susceptibility, irritability, con- 
sumption, gum-boils, ulcers, and bad teeth." 



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Rev. Coan, a missionary, made the disuse of 
tobacco one of the tests of "church-membership." 

Dr. Jennings says, " The use of tobacco is evil only 
continually." 

The Methodist Episcopal Bishops examine their 
elders on the tobacco question, and some of them 
require its non-use. Some of the M. E. Conferences 
prohibit the use of tobacco in all its forms. "Touch 
not, handle nor taste it." 

The Yankees defiled the Indians and themselves, 
giving them rum in exchange for the "noxious 
weed." 

A book called " Mysteries of Tobacco," says : "Al- 
cohol destroys the life and happiness of multitudes 
in a short term of years ; and so do tobacco and 
opium, producing excitement, depression, insanity, 
and death." Are the victims asleep or dead? and 
lost to reason, conscience, civility, religion, and 
eternity ? 

Incident. — " Pa," said a little boy in Connecti- 
cut to his Christian father, " didn't you say 'twas 
wicked to use tobacco?" "Yes, my boy." "Well, 
pa, is Elder Smith wicked? I saw him back of the 
house smoking his pipe, after breakfast and prayers." 
The father told me he was confounded, grieved, and 
ashamed. Bro. Smith tells me " he has since quit 
the offensive habit." 

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not strong drinks only, but all intoxicants, carnal 
indulgences, as such, or perversions, excesses, and 
overdoings. Good things are to be used without 
abuse ; the bad, discarded. 

Health does not require stimulants or narcotics, 
nor can it ever be fully enjoyed in the use of them. 
Rum, tobacco, opium, absinthe, and chloral are 
used by many and different classes to supply some 
unnatural, aching heart or void with false felicity. 
But disappointment follows, with a sad loss, and 
often with misery. Again : we very seldom find 
any of this class really, constantly, or everywhere 
■polite. They may bow, scrape, simper, and "how 
are you? " or they may sigh, pity, condole, donate, 
and imitate the better or pure classes ; but when 
stripped of the " lion's skin," or sham, and put to 
the severe tests of the "well-bred," the selfish, 
stupid "ass" is seen there — careless, vulgar, vile! 
It is murder to poison drinking-water, wells, or 
springs ; and is it not impolite, immoral, and crim- 
inal to pollute and poison the air we breathe, in 
rooms and on the public streets? But how many 
boast of etiquette, yet glory in their shame, like 
smoking, spitting, swearing, or drinking roughs? 
Nay, vices and crimes often run into each other, 
and graduate together. 



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CONFESSION OF A DOCTOR. 

"I began the habit," said a doctor, "when a boy, 
like all other silly boys. I used it in the vulgar 
form, chewing. I took rank with the f unclean 
animals ' that chew the r cud,' though I smoked for a 
year or two like a volcano. I cherished the notion 
that tobacco was a good repellant, a good disinfec- 
tant amid sickness and the impurities incident to the 
dissecting-rooms. 

"When ripe for professional practice, I rode hard, 
day and night, over hills and stony routes, and 
rolled my quid from side to side as a sweet mor- 
sel, companionable thing! I expectorated freely; 
indeed, I acquired notoriety as a sfitter^ so much so 
that wags, as my gig came in sight, would cry, 
' Stand out of the way ; the doctor 's coming ; he'll 
spit on you,' — much to my mortification. I became 
a ghostly, gloomy dyspeptic. I had practiced 
twenty years before I came to my senses. Tobacco, 
as well as strong drink, is a * mocker.' I was a vic- 
tim of its hallucination, unconscious of my bondage, 
and might have remained so, had it not been for the 
kind agency of a few good ladies bent on doing 
good. 

" It was a little on this wise. My health began to 
fail, and on my routes I would, for example, call on 
a sick child, and before I had half finished my pre- 






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scription, perhaps the mother would say, 'Doctor, 
how you tremble ! How pale you are ! You are 
killing yourself with tobacco ! ' and, ' Doctor, are 
you not chewing and spitting yourself to death?' 
These and similar admonitions came thick and fast. 

"At length I met a group of ladies ministering in 
a case of great peril and anguish, and my anxiety 
being great, I unconsciously consumed an incredible 
amount of Cavendish, as chewers are wont to do 
when excited. By this excess my nerves received 
a terrible shock. I fell ; I was insensible for a 
while, — altogether so. I called it a tobacco fit; 
extravagant men might call it a case of delirium 
tremens ; but I have seen many such fits since, — 
alas ! not a few resulting in death. 

"I was soon, however, upon my feet again, and 
these zealous ladies began to lecture me in pell-mell 
style. One said, 'Why, doctor, the Lord helping 
us, we snatched you from death ! Do, do drop 
tobacco !' Another, 'Your example, doctor, is con- 
firming my poor husband in bad habits, and ruining 
my boys.' Another, 'Our young minister has be- 
come a smoker by your advice, and already his ser- 
mons savor more of smoke than fire. His cigar, his 
rocking-chair, and polite literature are dearer to him 
than precious souls.' Another, 'Doctor, we set a 
sight by you ; do change your habits, and not cut 
short your days.' 



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" On taking m}^ gig, I began to reason in this 
way: f Tobacco is a -poison, rank and deadly, and 
ought to produce the legitimate effects of a poison. 
It ought to injure me, and if it does not, it does not 
do its duty. I will drop it. I will be a slave no 
longer. My Maker, witness my vows ! ' This vow 
formed an epoch in my life. My appetite, which 
had been as capricious as the winds, returned, and 
I could adopt the language of Dr. Hewitt, r I have 
dropped tobacco, and God has given me to enjoy 
every good thing.' I would not again come under 
the bondage of this tyrant and deceiver for all Cali- 
fornia." 

We have many similar confessions. Will you 
take heed, trust God, and be temperate? 

FROM REV. E. C. ROMINE, PENNSYLVANIA. 
A whole-sotiled revival, reformation preacher and evatigelist. 
To those who use tobacco as an anodyne or medi- 
cine, or to kill insects, we have nothing to say ; but 
we do raise objections to its use as a habit. 

(1) It is filthy. It is almost impossible for its 
user to be neat and cleanly. What lady wants to 
clean the floor, carpets, or spittoon, from tobacco? 
What decent young man would like to marry a 
young lady addicted to smoking or chewing? 

(2) It is expensive. A pastor lately told us that 
he believed that the members of the Baptist churches 

10 



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of this State (Pennsylvania) alone spent $200,000 
per year for tobacco. Many a church-member 
pays more to a tobacco-store than to his church. 
Twelve cents a day for thirty years, with interest, 
amounts to over seven thousand dollars ! 

(3) It is injurious. Many a tobacco-chew er 
shortens his life. The taste for it is not natural ; 
nature at first repudiates it, and says, " I will spew 
thee out of my mouth." Two drops of the oil of 
tobacco on the tongue of a cat will destroy its life in 
three or four minutes. It causes dyspepsia, debility, 
depression, epilepsy, apoplexy, cancers, and insan- 
ity. It injures the five senses. 

(4) It is slavish. How despotic the habit be- 
comes, — a match for alcohol or opium. "Sir," 
said one to a friend, "do you use tobacco ?" "No, 
sir," was the reply, "tobacco uses me." Every day 
one uses it the harder it is to give it up. What 
freeman wishes to be in such bondage? 

(5) // is twin sister to strong drink. The alli- 
ance between the two is evident. They both intoxi- 
cate. Drunkards use tobacco. Dr. Rush says, 
" It generates an artificial thirst." Hence it should 
be abandoned by the reformed drinker. The Indian 
said: "I wish for three things: — I. All the rum 
there is in the world. 2. All the tobacco; and 
3. More rum." 

(6) // is selfish.. The stench of a rank smoker 



TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 147 

pollutes and poisons his neighbors' air. Has he any 
more right to poison the air I breathe than the water 
I drink? His saliva and smoke insult us in the 
church, on the street, and in our houses. Only 
think of a man and woman sitting down to a sociable 
smoke ! 

Will the "coming woman" aspire to this right? 
The only benefit we know of is, it is said that the 
"cannibals will not eat a tobacco-chewer." But 
we believe we are making progress. Many a Chris- 
tian has given up this idol. Some preachers have 
failed in securing calls because they used tobacco. 
Our Methodist friends have refused to ordain to- 
bacco-users. The light is dawning, — the smoke is 
clearing away. 

In conclusion, if you use this narcotic, please cry 
out, " O Lord, deliver me from this filthy, expensive, 
injurious, slavish, rum-tending, and selfish habit." 
Then on your knees sign the following : 

"I, the undersigned, do agree to abstain from the 
use of all intoxicating drinks as a beverage, and 
will use my influence to persuade others to do the 
same. I also agree to abstain from the use of to- 
bacco in any of its forms." 

FROM REV. J. LISK, PENNSYLVANIA. 

The subject needs agitation. We are fast becom- 
ing a nation of smokers. It is a disgrace to us. 



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And the saddest feature of it all is that some of our 
pastors are guilty of using the abominable stuff. 
Their ■ clothes smell worse than the breath of a 
drunkard ! And they seem to have no compunctions 
of conscience for a wicked practice. See with what 
perfect indifference they puff away, polluting and 
poisoning the air which the Creator gave to us to 
breathe in its purity ! What impertinence ! what 
unblushing effrontery ! Governor Morris was once 
asked by a smoking divine "if gentlemen smoked in 
France?" and replied, "Gentlemen, sir; gentlemen 
smoke nowhere ! " 

Your six charges against tobacco are true. I 
wish you would add to each one, and print them in 
tract form. Especially is light needed by the young 
respecting the injury tobacco does the body and the 
intellect. Only last week I called on a sick boy of 
sixteen, whom tobacco had nearly ruined. The 
doctor told him he must quit the use of it, or it 
would kill him. And yet ministers and professing 
Christians will dare insult their Maker by trying to 
break his laws with impunity. Not long ago, in 
arguing with a Baptist pastor on the evil, as he was 
smoking, he said, " Oh, well, I know you have the 
argument, but I have the cigar." What consis- 
tency ! How dare he try to preach on Matt. v. 16, 
or x. 16, or Rom. xiv. 21, or 1 Cor. x. 31, or I 
Thess. v. 22, or 1 Tim. iv. 12, or Titus ii. 12? 



TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 149 

Forty years ago the use of rum among professing 
Christians was common, and little thought of. I 
heard a Presbyterian minister say it required about 
two barrels of whiskey to raise the meeting-house in 
which he had long preached. I firmly believe the 
time is not far off when the same odium and re- 
proach will attach to the using of tobacco as now 
attaches to the use of strong drink. Tobacco is a 
poison, and therefore a deadly evil. No Christian, 
therefore, can use it, or encourage its use, and re- 
main guiltless. 

May God bless you, my brother, in your holy cru- 
sade against this modern abomination and curse. 

The above is from a dear minister, of good stock 
and breeding, well educated, who loves to honor the 
Cross by preaching, example, and winning souls. 

SUGGESTIONS. 

Now, dear friend, commend thyself to God, and 
to men's consciences, by prayer, words, and acts. 
If we are really sick in mind or body, let each 
of us consult the wise and skillful, and take, if 
need be, arsenic, opium, henbane, tobacco, rum, 
calomel, or any other poison, as a medicine, and in 
its own proper place or time ; but not as a vile 
fashion or luxury. Can you set a bad example, 
make false excuses for it, and expect to cover up 
sin, and prosper? 



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CHURCH REFORM. 

The M. E. Conference in Virginia, in 1866, said: 
" Tobacco - using is filthy, expensive, unhealthy, 
weakening intellect, shortening life and posterity, is 
a sin against God, ourselves, and children, and all 
about us. Therefore we denounce and ignore the 
habit of tobacco-using in every form, and will use 
our influence against its power in society." 

The " Methodists " and " Free Baptists " in Rhode 
Island refuse ordination to tobacco users. 

HOW A SMOKER GOT A HOME. 

" I began to chew at the age of twelve. A few 
years later I commenced smoking. The practice 
grew upon me till I was smoking a large portion of 
the time except when asleep. At length I united 
with the church, and very soon abandoned the filthy 
habit of chewing tobacco. I still, however, enjoyed 
the cigar. 

"Just at this time I met a friend, who, with a coun- 
tenance beaming with love, said, 'It don't look well 
to see a member of the church smoking.' ' You are 
right,' said I ; and taking the cigar from my mouth 
threw it into the gutter. That was the last cigar I 
ever smoked. I was emancipated from a slavery 
worse than Egyptian bondage. 

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TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 151 

squandering for tobacco in the Seamen's Bank for 
Savings. I will tell the boys what I did with it, that 
the} r may see how unwise and inexpedient it is to 
commence the expensive, demoralizing habit of 
smoking or chewing tobacco. 

" My smoking was moderate compared with that 
of many, only six cigars a day, at 6 \ cents each, 
equal to $136.50 per annum, which, at 7 per cent, 
interest for forty-nine years, amounts to the small 
fortune of $51,719.99. This has afforded means for 
the education of my children, with an appropriate 
allowance for benevolent objects. 

" Great as this saving has been, it is not to be com- 
pared with improved health, a clear head and steady 
hand, at the age of over threescore and ten, and 
entire freedom from desire for tobacco in any form." 
— L. P. H. 

Dear reader, be wise ; leave your mark for good 
to posterity. 

CONSISTENCY IS A JEWEL. 

How some professed temperance-men use, cher- 
ish, tolerate, or only pass by the using of tobacco, 
opium, and other vile narcotics, stultifying them- 
selves by aiding in keeping alive the morbid appe- 
tite of the tippler with these substitutes ! Oh, doctor 
the blood, the heart, the fountain ! Let no germs, 
cancer-root, or virus of drunkenness remain ! Ex- 



152 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

tirpate inebriety, gluttony, lechery, avarice, and all 
excesses, by grace through faith in Christ. Keep 
so full of God's love, Spirit, word, work, and re- 
ward, that you will not relish carnality, sin, error, 
excess, or their agents. 

OPIUM. 

OpiUM-eating, smoking, and potion, prevail in 
various parts of the world ; and are a growing evil 
and sin in Christendom. It is used in divers forms. 
The druggists say, "Many thousand pounds of it 
are yearly imported ; much also is being raised here ; 
and not more than one-fifth of it is used as medi- 
cine ; while four-fifths are used to intoxicate." 

China pays some $60,000,000 yearly for this vile 
opiate. What a curse to them, and to the English, 
who raised the opium in India, and by war forced it 
on the Chinese ! 

About $25,000,000 are paid for opium yearly in 
America. Doctors say, "Its use is greatly on the 
increase, and conduces to drunkenness." It is said, 
"that John Randolph, of North Carolina, was an 
inveterate opium-eater." No wonder he was so 
eccentric ! 

A Japanese merchant was recently condemned 
to ten years imprisonment for smoking ofium, and 
setting such a bad example. What a shame and sin 
for us, a Christian people, to be principals and abet- 



TOBACCO AND OPIUM. 153 

tors in opium-using and drunkenness ! We and all 
are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuits of hap- 
piness ; and no smoker, spitter, libertine, or ruffian 
has any right to interfere. We are responsible for 
our gifts and acts. Let us, brethren, preach entire 
temperance, and practice the same. Oh, "let us 
stem the storm " and current, or fight the enemy ; 
and with God and the pure we are a majority, sure 
of triumph ! 

HOLY WAR. — {Hold the Fort.) 

Ho ! dear brethren, see the signal 

Waving in the sky ! 
Zion's armies now appearing ; 

Victory is nigh ! 

" Hold the Cross, for Christ is coming ; " 

Angels shouting still ! 
Wave the Gospel-flag to heaven ; — 

f By His grace, we will." 

Lo ! Satanic hosts revolting ! — 

Hear God's trumpet blow ! 
In our Captain's name we'll triumph, 

Conq'ring every foe. 

Peace on earth ! though Satan rages, 

Mighty Help is near. 
Hail Good News, — and Great Commander ! 

Cheer, good soldiers, cheer ! — E. A. 



CHAPTER XII. 

LIFE AND HEALTH. 

" In God we live, move, and have oitr being" 

|feIFE is a state of human existence, being, 
animation, or vitality, in which its organs are 
capable of performing freely their natural functions 
of body, mind, heart, and soul, according to their 
voluntary and united dictates. 

Spiritual life is mental, moral, immaterial, with 
vigor and energy for endless duration. Holy life is 
pure, consecrated, and sanctified to the service of 
God, with love, faith, hope, obedience, and happi- 
ness on earth and in heaven forever ; while the life 
of the wicked is sin, perversion, suicide, antichrist, 
fitting them for destruction in hell forever. God has 
made ample provisions for our mortal and immortal, 
complex, double natures of body and soul for life, 
food, health, prosperity, and happiness. 

HUMAN FOOD. 

" Ho, ye hungry and thirsty ones, come to the sup- 
per ! " God, in infinite wisdom and grace, has fur- 

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nished abundant aliment, well suited to the spiritual, 
intellectual, and physical nature of man, for our con- 
ditions, duties, success, and preparation for our pres- 
ent weal and future happiness. 

Exercise, strong and frequent, is necessary to 
robust life, health, and strength of the body, mind, 
and soul. " To serve God is meat and drink." How 
carefully, then, we should use and guard this myste- 
rious locomotive workmanship of Jehovah's wisdom ! 

IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH. 

" Mayest thou prosper and be in health." (3jno.2.) 
Ample provisions of food, raiment, shelter, and 
protection for all times, climes, seasons, and circum- 
stances, are guaranteed to the truly obedient, indus- 
trious, temperate, economical servants of God. 
There is light for the eye, odor for the nose, and 
fruit for the mouth ; nay, truth and music for the 
tongue and ear, facts from the heavens and earth 
for the intellect, and the Bible, with ordinances, and 
the Trinity, for our souls. "Man cannot live by 
bread alone." Man is a kind of microcosm, with 
organs and functions, in the solar center of the in- 
finite cosmos, while walking with God. 

In a normal or regenerated state he enjoys life, 
health, strength, and happiness; but in the abnor- 
mal, fallen, sinful, and diseased state, man is erratic, 
dissatisfied amid the profusions of Heaven's bless- 



156 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

ings. Let Satan and sin be exiled from heart and 
life ; the flesh and world be fully subdued ; then how 
soon the Lord and love would fill the old "aching 
void " with infinite satiety ! 

States of body and mind mutually act and react 
upon each other for good or evil, as they exist. 

Signs indicate the states of health or disease, and 
the degrees. The abnormal system only craves 
rum, tobacco, opium — sin; while the normal, rel- 
ishes the good and holy. 

POWER OF HEALTH. 

Said a certain evangelist : " I did not suspect that 
I had such brain-power, till it told so severely on 
bodily health ; the states of my mind produced their 
varieties on the whole nervous system ; and vice 
versa, the body, if any way out of gear, left its like- 
ness on the mental powers. A sickly body almost 
dethroned my reason." Thus they act and react, 
or sympathize mutually and alternately, till the 
stronger power prevails. Thoughts often breathe 
and burn, either with pain or pleasure, telegraphing 
or magnetizing all parts of the system with joy or 
sorrow. How the mind, stimulated or depressed, 
ever affects our reason, judgment, will, passion, 
acts and enjoyments ! Supposing the liver, spleen, 
or any sensitive part be weak or diseased, how soon 
we feel poor, weak, taciturn, peevish, incoherent, 



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157 



warlike, melancholy, or elated, by turns ! You see 
it. How important, then, is good health ; and how 
we should use means and care to preserve and pro- 
mote the highest state of health, for our usefulness 
and prosperity ! Can a sickly body bear the great 
strain of a sane, active mind, or a weak engine a 
great head of steam, or a rotten ship the gallant 
sails or the equinoctial gale? How would a Corliss 
engine work in a frail, rotten bark or cotton-mill? 
What could a Hercules do with his giant powers in 
a condemned skiff? Oh, then, how could a Cicero, 
Caesar, or Demosthenes, a Luther, Whitefield, 
Knapp, Earle, or a Moody, sustain their mighty in- 
tellects and eloquence, without a sound bodily sys- 
tem? So let us be wise ! 

HYGIENIC RULES. 

1. Health and appetite are promoted by early ris- 
ing, like the birds ; by active and passive regular 
exercise in the open air, and abstinence from intoxi- 
cants, narcotics, and patent nostrums. Avoid sin, 
perversion, waste, idleness, or neglect. Rubbing- 
down, shampooing, and the Turkish or other baths, 
are wholesome. 

2. Eat good, pure food slowly, and drink little; 
use simple varieties in moderation, and masticate 
well ; exercise the body, mind, and voice, at inter- 
vals, but not immediately after meals. 



158 PEARLS OF WORLDS, 

3. Bathe often entire; keep the body, clothing, 
and buildings clean, with pure water and atmos- 
phere. 

4. Secure proper ventilation, clothing for use, 
profit and comfort, adapted to times, climes, seasons, 
and changes, and regular employment of body and 
mind, with free alternate rests or variations. Be 
calm, content, peaceful, virtuous, godly, lively, tem- 
perate, and victorious. 

5. Have good company, books, conscience, order, 
and devotions. Be prompt, earnest, ready, hopeful, 
generous, and happy. 

6. Follow fashion no further than it is adapted to 
use, health, propriety, and religion. 

7. Avoid impure air in bed-rooms, sick-rooms, 
halls, and churches ; or stopping when warm in a 
draft of air, to get chilly. Beware of rich, hearty 
meals just before retiring, as they are apt to disturb 
rest, cause dreams, produce nightmare or insomnia ; 
eat light food, but sparingly. 

8. Over-eating morning or noon, or any time, is 
injurious to health, happiness, or life — producing 
dullness, uneasiness, drowsiness, disease, sickness, 
and sometimes death. 

9. Be regular in all your habits, cheerful, looking 
on the bright or brighter side. Seek the light, sun- 
shine, or sunny side, and shun the dampness of the 
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10. Control strictly your appetite and passions, or 
they will control you, and destroy you, body and soul. 

11. Be temperate in all things, in meats, drinks, 
pleasures, efforts, zeal, speech, and devotions. Ex- 
ercise the whole body and mind daily, with good 
motives, and with lovely objects in view, working, 
walking, talking, or singing. 

12. Avoid undue mental, physical, moral, social, 
or religious excitement, all fretting, anger or re- 
venge. Beware of tight clothing, tight shoes, or 
leaky boots in wet weather. Keep the feet warm 
and dry, head cool, and body clean and comfortable 
— right. 

13. Eat to live, not live to eat, nor eat between 
meals ; ever abjuring false appetites, fermented or 
distilled liquors, tobacco, opium, absinthe, or 
chloral. 

14. Ignore or avoid undue exposure, exertions, 
and strains of body or mind. 

Observe the above rules, rejecting the opposite, 
and you may enjoy active life, vigorous health, hap- 
piness, and "a green old age." Every one ought to 
examine carefully, and decide candidly, this subject, 
and decide as if before God. If Americans, in gen- 
eral, would not over-do, over-eat, covet, worry, nor 
use badly-cooked food, liquors, tobacco, opium, and 
nostrums, or neglect exercise and suitable clothing, 



160 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

working and resting wisely, they might be much 
richer, healthier, happier, and holier ; yea, set bet- 
ter Christian examples, and do more to save souls 
and glorify God. 

PHYSICAL DEGENERACY. 

Says Dr. Conell, of popular homoeopathic fame : 
" The chief causes of degeneracy are : liquor, opium, 
tobacco, ill-ventilation, rich or diversified food, tea 
and coffee, tight-lacing, female idleness, abortion or 
sexual excess, secret vices of youth, and follies of 
carnal age." 

Millions of blindness from over-work, excess, 
vice, or intemperance, curse the poor victims. 

The blood gets impure by bad air, eating, colds. 

Father Waldo, a chaplain in Congress at ninety- 
five, said : "Eat slow, masticate well, keep cheerful, 
be social, never be angry, cultivate love, be active, 
and enjoy a fruitful old age." 

Dr. Webber says : " Unhealthiness of one parent 
or both, scrofula, disposed to insanity, animal ex- 
cess, marriage of kin, deficiency of brain, low 
physical base, onanism, or functional disorganiza- 
tion, tend to degeneracy; intemperance being a pre- 
vailing chief cause, attended with gluttony and 
idiocy." How many kinds of fools ! 

Colonel Benton — " Old Bullion " — said, " My 
mother asked me not to drink, gamble, or use 



LIFE AND HEALTH. 161 

tobacco. I ever complied. My usefulness and en- 
durance are from this." How hale when I saw him ; 
and so eloquent to the last ! 

Exercise of brain, active, pure, temperate, de- 
voted, and regular habits, usually secure long lives, 
aided by wisdom, faith, and godliness. 

How all true "watchmen" should live, and cry 
out against all sin, vice, and crime; and preach to 
promote health, virtue, religion, and true happiness. 

Dr. Johnson says : " Sunlight, exercise, simple diet, 
and abundant sleep, preserve or restore health." 

Old Parr, aged 154, advised : " Cool head by 
temperance, warm feet by exercise, early rest and 
early rising, and if inclined to fat, keep the eyes open 
and the mouth shut." 

Lie level in bed, and keep the mouth shut. 

Females need seven hours' sleep, males eight. 

In Paris one thousand children die annually of 
the fashionable exposure of necks and limbs. 

Doctors say, " Diet, activity, merry men, succeed 
best." 

What would Hercules do in a rotten boat as an 
oarsman, or a powerful preacher in a sick body? 

Shaving the upper lip injures the eyesight, and 
promotes catarrh. 

What is the best artillery without a carriage? 
Heads without bodies, or children and genius with- 
out a firm frame ? 
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162 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

BRAIN-WORK. 

Professor J. Patton says, of the habits and death 
of Bayard Taylor, a personal friend whom he had 
warned of the danger of wine and beer drinking and 
smoking, as follows : 

" Mental labor is not hostile to health and life. 
But I am more than ever convinced that a man who 
lives by his brain is of all men bound to avoid stimu- 
lating his brain. In this climate, to stimulate the 
brain by alcohol and tobacco is only a slow kind of 
suicide. Even the most moderate use of the mildest 
wine is not without danger, because the peculiar ex- 
haustion caused by severe mental labor is a constant 
and urgent temptation to increase the quantity and 
strength of the potation. I would say to every young 
man in the United States, if I could reach him : If 
you mean to attain one of the prizes of your profes- 
sion and live a cheerful life to the age of eighty, 
throw away your dirty old pipe, put your cigar in 
the stove, never buy any more, become an absolute 
teetotaler, take your dinner in the middle of the day, 
and rest one day in seven." 

IMPORTANT QUESTION. 

" Who is Old ? — A wise man will never rust 
out. As long as he can move and breathe he will be 
doing for himself, his neighbor, or for posterity. 
Almost to the last hour of his life, Washington was at 



LIFE AND HEALTH. 163 

work. So were Franklin, and Young, and Howard, 
and Newton. The vigor of their lives never decayed. 
No rust marred their spirits. It is a foolish idea to 
suppose we must lie down and die because we 
are old. Not the man of energy ; not the day-la- 
borer in science, art, or benevolence; but he only 
who suffers his energies to waste away and the 
springs of life to become motionless ; on whose 
hands the hours drag heavily, and to whom all 
things wear the garb of gloom. Is he old? should 
not be put ; but is he active ? can he breathe freely 
and move with agility ? There are scores of gray- 
headed men we should prefer, in any important en- 
terprise, to those young gentlemen who fear and 
tremble at approaching shadows, and turn pale at a 
lion in their path, at a harsh word, or a frown." 

TRAINING CHILDREN. 

i. Children should not go to school until six years 
old. 

2. Should not learn at home during that time 
more than the alphabet, religious teachings excepted. 

3. Should be fed with plain, substantial food, at 
regular intervals of not less than four hours. 

4. Should not be allowed to eat anything within 
two hours of bedtime. 

5. Should have nothing for supper but a single 
cup of warm drink, such as cambric tea, or warm 



164 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

milk and water, with one slice of cold bread and 
butter. 

6. Should sleep in separate beds, on hair mat- 
tresses, without caps, feet first well warmed by the 
fire, or rubbed with the hands until perfectly dry ; ex- 
tra covering on the lower limbs, but little on the body. 

7. Should be compelled to be out of doors for the 
greater part of daylight, until half an hour before 
sundown, unless in damp, raw weather. 

8. Never limit a healthy child as to sleeping or 
eating, except at supper; but compel regularity as 
to both. 

9. Never compel a child to sit still, nor interfere 
with its enjoyment, as long as it is not actually inju- 
rious to person or property, or against good morals. 

10. Never threaten a child; it is cruel, unjust, 
and dangerous. What you have to do, do it, and 
be done with it. 

11. Never speak harshly or angrily, but mildly, 
kindly, and when really needed, firmly. 

12. By all means arrange it so that the last words 
between you and your children at bedtime shall be 
words of unmixed lovingness and affection. 

LONGEVITY. 

The world has generally held the average of hu- 
man life to be about thirty years. But modern sta- 
tistics show life to be growing longer, as follows : 



LIFE AND HEALTH. ^5 

"According to Jacques, after making all allowance 
for the vast amount of premature mortality of the 
present day, statistics show that the length of life 
has been steadily increasing since the sixteenth cen- 
tury, when, according to Dr. Buchanan, its average 
was only eighteen years. Make every allowance 
for difference in climates, new social conditions, and 
leave a wide margin for errors, and after all, how 
wonderfully does this contrast with the calculations of 
the present day, which give as the average dura- 
tion of life in Europe actually forty-three years ! 

"The ancient Romans were longer-lived than their 
Italian descendants of a later age; but the mean 
duration of life among them, not including the ser- 
vile classes, according to Ulpian, was thirty years 
only. Yet, as a large proportion of them died by the 
sword, or by the enemy, we raise the standard of 
healthy domestic life among them. The ancient 
Germans, as described by Tacitus, were much longer- 
lived than their smoking, heavy supper-eating de- 
scendants. Life was the shortest during the Middle 
Ages, because men were then cooped up in towns, 
fed principally on pork and mustard, salt fish, and 
bad bread, consuming much wine, and exercising 
very little. We know that this conflicts with the 
popular idea of those ' gallant knights' and 'faith- 
ful squires ; ' but the knights and squires formed a 
very small part of the population. 



1 66 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

"Scrofula, leprosy, and a host of uncleanly diseases, 
afflicted the majority of the people. Everybody 
lived in towns whose walls were contracted to ren- 
der defense easy, and the result was a degree of 
filth, darkness, and suffering, which the student 
shudders over when reviving their horrible details. 
Very few persons, even farmers and their men, could 
be said to live in the country at all, as they always 
huddled together in fortified villages or towns, walk- 
ing daily many miles to their agricultural labors ; a 
custom still kept up in many parts of Europe. 

"The average duration of life in Great Britain, at 
the present day, among those in good circumstances, 
is fifty years; for the whole population, it is about 
forty-five years. For France it is forty-two, and for 
the United States about forty-three ; a very low rate 
indeed when we consider what it might be. 

" The large proportion of deaths of children in our 
cities is the most terrible drawback to longevity. 
This is owing principally to the fact that they are 
in cities. Fresh air, pure milk, absence from the 
feverish, irritating influences of cities, close lodg- 
ings, and unhealthy luxuries, all act favorably both 
on mothers and children. 

" Future ages, in looking back to the bills of mor- 
tality of these days, will wonder that people who 
knew better, and were continually told so by the 
press, could persevere in what looks like deliberate 



LIFE AND HEALTH. 167 

murder, deliberate torture of beings, when they had 
it in their power to save their lives. 

" Life is shortened in infants principally by- r im- 
pure air, improper food, over-feeding, rocking and 
"jouncing," laudanum, paregoric, castor-oil, and 
tight bandages.' To this we may add, that so soon 
as a child grows a little older it is generally dressed 
up like a show-monkey and admonished to keep 
perfectly quiet and stiff for purposes of exhibition, 
to flatter the idiotic vanity of parents, who seem to 
think that the perfect ease and restless activity which 
Health requires, are of no consequence whatever, 
compared to c looking pretty.' With those who are 
older, the conditions which confer a long life, and, 
what is more important, a healthy and generally 
happy one, are thus stated by Mr. Jacques : A 
sound physical constitution, depending in a great 
measure on the proper treatment of infants ; a judi- 
cious physical education ; simplicity and regularity 
of diet, and the efficient action of all the nutritive 
or restorative functions ; sufficient pleasurable exer- 
cise in the open air to promote a healthy circulation, 
immunities from harassing cares and anxieties, and 
excesses of every kind ; constant moderate activity 
of body and mind, — no idler ever reached a great 
age, — and finally happiness or enjoyment, which as 
Dr. Southwood says, x is not only the end of life, but 
it is the only condition of life compatible with a pro- 



l68 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

tracted term of existence. The haffier a human 
being is the longer he lives ; the more he suffers the 
sooner he dies. To add to enjoyment is to lengthen 
life; to inflict pain is to shorten existence.'" 

EXAMPLES OF LONGEVITY. 

Peter Nassan, of Pomfort, Vt., died aged 126, in 

1857. 

Old Creold, of Wisconsin, died aged 130 years, 
in 1857. 

Old Caesar died aged 138 ; a Brazil negro aged 
150 years. 

In Russia a soldier died aged 153 years, in 1856. 

Old Parr died aged 154 years. 

Henry Duval, of Kentucky, aged 113 years, and 
was a church-member 87 years. 

A person died in South America aged 175 years. 

With the better class in all Christendom, the aver- 
age time of life is growing longer. 

Ministers of the gospel are the longest-lived. Re- 
ligion and literary pursuits conduce to power of 
mind, body, and soul for old age. 

CLOSING SUGGESTIONS. 

The food system I esteem the key-note of wealth, 
hygiene, and temperance. 

Lager beer is the cause of innumerable cases of 
apoplexy. — Berlin Faculty of Medicine. 



LIFE AND HEALTH. 169 

Adulterations of foods are criminally frequent, 
and cause much sickness and mortality. This evil, 
with adulterations of medicine, drinks, tobaccos, 
and many contaminating compounded poisonous ad- 
mixtures, are very fatal. 

Oh, study the laws of nature and grace, learn the 
object of your being, the use of Jehovah's provisions 
for the health of body and soul, and the philosophy 
of the higher life, then will you by sound words and a 
godly example bequeath a rich legacy to posterity, 
share the earnest of heaven here, and eternal life 
above with God and the holy forever. 

OUR HOME. 
(Rest for the Weary.) 

In the Christian's home in glory 
There remains a land of rest ; 

There my Savior's gone before me, 
To fulfill my soul's request. 

He is fitting up a mansion, 
Which eternally shall stand ; 

For my stay shall not be transient 
In that holy, happy land. 

Pain and sickness ne'er shall enter, 
Grief nor woe my lot shall share ; 

But in that celestial center 
I a crown of life shall wear. 





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CHAPTER XIII. 

REVIVAL OCCASIONS. 

iN aged pharisee once boasted of his religious 
experience, as first-best, sure, and all well 
written out. But it being asked for, he hunted and 
rummaged his closet and garret for a long time, to 
find the choice record. But alas ! poor soul ! on 
unrolling the article of experience, it was found all 
eaten up of vermin. He could not read it, and was 
sadly confounded. How will it be at the bar of 
God? 

Mr. Elifalet Wilber, of New Hampshire, opposed 
his wife, and forbade her baptism. When I was 
leading her out of the river, he exclaimed, "You've 
gone forward with a lie in your mouth. You once 
agreed to wait till both of us should go together. 
We are now separated for life ! " That night, at 
home, he abused her shamefully. The next morn- 
ing and day after he felt his wickedness, prayed, 
confessed, gave up all to Christ, and found pardon. 

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REVIVAL OCCASIONS. 171 

At evening, friends came in, and were happily dis- 
appointed on seeing peace and union, instead of the 
repetition of the previous night-scene. Bro. Wilber 
was happy, and all rejoiced and thanked God. I 
baptized him on the next Lord's day, and after this, 
their children. He lived well after, and died in 
triumph. 

A pious wife, in a revival in Rochester, N. Y., 
went to church and asked prayers for her husband. 
He became alarmed at her zeal, and exclaimed, 
"Wife, I'm afraid you'll kill yourself, if you don't 
stop this!" "Well," she replied, "dear husband, I 
believe I shall die if you are not converted ; and 
I had rather die praying for you, than to have you 
lose your precious soul." " Well, my dear," he re- 
plied with deep emotion, "if that is so, I'll go with 
you, and attend to my soul," — and did so. He was 
soon converted, and both were happy. 

A Baptist pastor's son and daughter in Vermont, 
being young sinners and shy, stayed out of my way, 
and suffered in the cold so much, that they offered 
to pay my board at a neighbor's house rather than 
have me stay at their father's, because they feared 
my talking about religion and their souls. But 
soon both were converted, and delighted to sit with 
me, and talk or pray at their fireside. They were 



172 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

immersed, and sixty others, in the revival at Pond- 
ville. 



In the same meeting the unconverted chorister, a 
fiddler for balls, disliked the evangelist's remarks, 
and persuaded all the choir to balk. So they re- 
fused to sing the next hymn. But I sang it. This 
just proved my remarks to be true, — the choir 
were convicted, and converted to praising God. 
The elder's son and the chorister became good 
leaders. 

Thos. Burrows, of Keyport, N. J., had just re- 
turned from California with the gold ; was in prof- 
itable business, but was not satisfied. He came to 
the extra meetings, " resolved to follow any reason- 
able advice." When I asked all to arise who wished 
to be filled with the Spirit, he arose. When inquir- 
ers were asked to come forward, he came at the first 
call. Soon he arose and spoke for Jesus. His wife 
also, and her mother, entertained hope, and all 
three I immersed, and thanked God. — Here I visit. 

Bro. B has been very faithful, and has become 

a deacon of the Baptist church. 

Col. Jones, of New Jersey, was convicted of his 
sins — social, political, and high life; tried to rise 
for prayers in the meeting, but " was hindered as if 



REVIVAL OCCASIONS. 173 

he were tied down," he said. He made another 
effort and came out; was converted, and baptized 
with his wife and children in the river. " Oh," said 
he, "everything looks better to me — my wife, 
children, friends, and even the beasts and the trees." 
He was kind, generous, and active. 

Mrs. B , of Pennsylvania, wealthy, fashion- 
able, kind, and formal, once complained of the cry- 
ing of the anxious. So I sent her to a deeply dis- 
tressed girl, to calm her if she could. She went, 
but could not still the girl. She thereby got con- 
victed herself, and prayed all night, till, as she 
said, " she experienced religion for the first time." 
The agony and prayers of the convicted girl were a 
means of her own salvation, and she blessed God. 

A Quakeress in Camden, N. J., proud of her 
morality, got angry at me for my sermon on 
"Dives in Hell." She said "such preaching did 
not suit her, and would only harden her ; " but she 
was then trembling with conviction. She said she 
" had heard sermons she liked." I advised her to 
review such till she should be converted, and I 
would rejoice. The next night she gave all up for 
Christ, and was happy to obey the Savior. In 
giving her experience, she said, " Never, before she 
heard my sermon on f Praying in Hell,' did she 



174 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

think that she deserved hell, — but then she felt." 
How " auntie " rejoiced us all ! 

An Antinomian woman in Washington, D. C, 
got very angry with live preaching, ran out of the 
church complaining bitterly, and returned, found 
joy, and was baptized. She was a good Christian, 
and my good friend. 

A gentleman in Washington, D. C, not often in 
church, came out of curiosity. While reading of 
the marriage supper, I stopped and cried out loudly, 
"Is there one here without the wedding-garment?" 
and he was first convicted by that arrow, and after- 
ward converted and baptized. 

An infidel postmaster and merchant, in a revival 
in Pennsylvania, ridiculed religion, the Bible, and 
Andrews ; but to see, hear, and sport, he came to 
meeting. Soon I heard a groan in the audience, — 
and Hugh Donly was deeply convicted. Forward 
he came with his wife and sister, and the three were 
shortly converted and baptized. He said, "All the 
preaching before this had gone to his head, or over 
it ; but mine shot him in the heart. He had fought 
in self-defense." 

Mr. Patterson, Esq., of New Jersey, was severely 
wounded in heart, and arose in meeting complain- 



REVIVAL OCCASIONS. 175 

ing of members, preacher, measures, and doctrine. 
He excused himself for not rising for prayers when 
the general invitation was given, but said " he felt 
his need." I advised him to surrender his objec- 
tions, sins, and himself, and to believe on Christ, 
that he might see as we did. He did so, and be- 
came a sterling Christian and friend. 

Mr. Roberts, son of the Elder, was convinced of 
Bible truth, and convicted of sin in New Jersey, and 
in a glorious revival there, arose in meeting and 
confessed his secret perusal of Voltaire, Paine, and 
other such infidel authors ; had imbibed error, but 
had become disgusted with them all, by their bad 
fruits, and was now ready to come out for Christ. 
He did so, and delighted his friends, who had been 
astonished at his speech and change. 

A farmer in Pennsylvania got angry on seeing 
the people go to church while he was at work, 
but smarting under his sins. In his agitation, 
the ploughing horses disobeyed him. He raved, 
whipped, and abused his team, as if to kill them, 
till the horses turned about and faced him at the 
plough, — rebuking him, Balaam-like. So he quit 
work, came into the extra meeting, yielded to the 
Spirit, obeyed, and was happy. He came, some 
twenty years after, a long way to see me, and testify. 



176 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A gay young man heard, in Providence, R. I., 
that a preacher of three hundred pounds' weight was 
preaching at the Baptist church ; so he and com- 
rades came. He said he " looked, got shot in his 
heart, found Christ, and was happy." He was soon 
baptized. 

Mr. Zebley, of Delaware, came to meeting, was 
convicted, got angry, scoffing, and saying, "if the 
people wanted to hear a fool, go and hear Andrews." 
After I left, he was so anxious that he came to Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., to have me talk and pray with him. 
He gave up, believed, and found Christ on the spot, 
and exclaimed, rejoicing, " Eternity ! O Eternity ! " 

A Miss D , of Pennsylvania, was convicted in 

a revival, but ashamed to manifest it; tried to hide 
her feelings by sport and opposition till she became 
frantic, and swore profanely. Her mates were 
thunderstruck by this, coming from a lady of educa- 
tion and position. Going home and retiring, she 
saw herself and sins as by a flash of lightning, cried 
to God for help, called in her friends to pray for 
her, and before morning she found forgiveness. 
She soon called on me, and was happy and humble. 

General Armstrong, of Rome, N. Y., high, rich, 
noble, and full of business, became serious, and his 



REVIVAL OCCASIONS. 



177 



good wife prayed for him. Soon he came to the 
anxious-seat, and there found peace. " Oh," said 
he, " I thought this was the place for children only, 
till I came ; but now I am happy here with them." 
Then round he went, persuading sinners to come 
forward and to Christ. He was baptized by me in 
Rome, and some hundred others. He witnessed 
well, and God took him. 

A moralist in Washington, D. C, hearing that a 
Yankee was preaching in a revival, out of curiosity 
came, saw, heard, felt, and said: "I thought I was 
good enough, but Mr. Andrews stripped me. I felt 
as if shot through my heart, — that none but Christ 
could save me. I was once like a man trying to 
carry himself to heaven in a hand-basket ; but now 
I'm happy in Christ, my righteousness." He was 
baptized, and was very efficient. 



When but a child of four years old, 
My father taught me God and prayer ; 

Soon Christ, by grace and truth to mould, 
Made heart and soul my anxious care. 

I praised the Lord at twenty-four, 

For love, and faith, and joy untold; 
As Christ has blessed till seventy-four, 

I trust, and reap an hundred-fold. — E. A. 
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CHAPTER XIV. 

REVIVAL INCIDENTS. 

|l|AJOR TATE, of Pennsylvania, heard a ser- 
1 mon by the author, from the text, " Be sure 
your sin will find you out" (Num. xxxii. 23), twenty 
years ago ; and hearing him again, was most deeply 
convicted. He came out for prayers, went home 
burdened, agonized in vain all night in prayer, but 
early Lord's-day morning he hastened to his office, 
near by, to be all alone, and there gave up all to 
Christ, and was happy. 

Shortly after, he darted over to my room, came in 
without knocking, threw down his hat, exclaiming, 
" God has blessed me — I'm happy ! " We had a sea- 
son of thanksgiving and prayer ; and out he dashed 
through the village, telling of his great change, and 
inviting all of his old comrades to Jesus, and the 
meeting. He was soon immersed, and went his way 
rejoicing. 

"For twenty-one years," he said, " your sermon 
has ever haunted me till my reconviction at this time, 
and my reconciliation to God." 

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REVIVAL INCIDENTS. 



179 



In this revival his gay and fashionable daughter, 
with her husband — keepers of a popular hotel — 
were converted. The rum was stopped and the bar 
nailed up ; and they rejoiced. 

An adept moulder, in Reading, Pa., was so deep- 
ly convicted of his sins, and so troubled, that all his 
work went wrong ; and it so vexed him that he got 
mad and swore till he was confounded and affright- 
ed at his own wickedness. He came to the meet- 
ing the next night, asked prayers, prayed aloud, and 
yielded to Christ. He then stood up and shouted 
aloud for joy. After this his work went right, and 
was delightful. 

A fine boy, at Norristown, Pa., was convicted, 
converted, and made in the revival a good testimo- 
ny. Soon he knelt in prayer, and cried aloud for 
" mercy on his burdened soul." All were astonished, 
and some made wild and invidious remarks. But 
soon came a triumphant solution, when he in his 
agony cried out, " O Lord, have mercy on my dear 
father — do save him ! " His father's soul weighed 
him down, and well-nigh crushed the son's heart — 
like Christ in the garden, — and God delivered him. 
Then he was happy. 

A man and wife came to a meeting in Pennsyl- 
vania, heard the gospel, were deeply smitten, went 



180 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

home, felt sick, took a dose of "Indian pills," and 
went to bed ; but not to rest. The next morning the 
pastor called to see the sin-sick souls ; when they 
complained bitterly to him, and threatened the evan- 
gelist. They finally came to church, gave earnest 
attention to the Word, and to anecdotes adapted to 
their cases, and came out for inquiry and prayer. 
Soon the wife was converted ; then she laid her 
hand on her weeping husband and prayed, till he 
cried aloud, in a falsetto voice, as if hanging by a 
thread, till his soul was born anew; and all were 
happy. 

A rich bachelor, in Pennsylvania, was deeply 
exercised in a revival, and soundly converted. He 
was truly grateful and generous. " Don't the pas- 
tor want a horse? the church or missions need mon- 
ey?" said he to his sister. He went on, rejoicing. 

During a revival in Middletown, N. Y., the youths 
became troubled lest their winter sports should be 
broken up, so they banded together to stay from the 
meetings ; and so expected to foil the church and 
have their own pleasures. 

The work progressed gloriously. Suddenly a 
young man of mark — their leader in sin — was, as 
by lightning, struck with conviction at midnight, 
and cried for help and prayers. Soon the news 



REVIVAL INCIDENTS. 181 

spread, and the young people who had bound them- 
selves under a curse were struck, too : repented, and 
found freedom in Christ Glorious time ! 

Two worldly gentlemen in North Adams, Mass., 
questioned the propriety of the church engaging in 
a revival meeting while it was in such a cold and 
unprepared state, as they kindly said to the pastor; 
and, also, that "Andrews was not the man to get up 
a revival there." But the pastor was wise, and the 
church obeyed the Spirit. Notice : these two were 
among the first to come out for Christ, and to be im- 
mersed ; and some sixty others followed. One of 
these is a Sampson in the church and in business. 

Mr. Hale, of Rome, N. Y., a vacillating infidel, 
met me in a revival in Rochester, N. Y. I asked 
him " how he did." " I'm a new man," said he, 
firmly. " How and when did this change take place, 
Brother Hale?" "Well, you know, I was heretical. 
I came here on business ; I saw the people going to 
church, and I went; and soon I was convicted of 
sin. I returned to my hotel, but the bar, the bar- 
tender, all seemed bad, and the company I had 
drank with there. I resolved to quit the cup and 
company, and did so. On entering my chamber I 
tried to pray ; I walked the room ; would have sought 
some Christian to pray for me, but knew of none 



182 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

available ; so I, all but in despair, prayed again, and 
found Christ and peace to my soul. Oh, I've begun a 
new life, Elder Andrews ; had I better wait till I 
go home, and then let my wife see for herself, or 
write first?" "Oh, write her, and then let her see 
the change," said I. He wrote, remained some 
days, taking active parts in the revival, of great 
power, and returned home. And by asking a bless- 
ing at the supper-table, then praying, after reading 
the Bible and before retiring, his wife was struck 
with deep convictions, and soon found comfort ; and 
both were happy, and followed Christ in baptism, 
rejoicing with the brethren. 

Mr. Mount, of New York, was convicted, but 
would not come out for prayers, stayed home, feeling 
stubborn and bad ; but was so deeply distressed that 
he yielded his will, was willing to do anything, 
prayed, and found the Savior. He remains a faith- 
ful Baptist. 

A convicted sinner, in Reading, Pa., went to Dr. 
Greece for treatment. On examination the doctor 
told him "there was no disease of his bodily organs 
or functions. You've heard Andrews, have you?" 
"Yes," was the reply. "Well, you had better go 
again, and you will get the right advice and medi- 
cine," said the doctor. And so he did ; was cured 
and happy. 



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Captain Peck, of New York, said " his dear wife 
was going to join the Baptist church, and he had 
rather follow her to the grave than to the baptism." 
"But do you oppose her?" said a friend. " Oh, no," 
was the reply ; "but it seems by her leaving me in 
my sins that we are hereafter to be separated." 
"Well, sir," said his friend, as they rode around, 
"your best way is to be converted and to go with 
her." The Captain soon obtained a hope, and re- 
joiced with his wife in baptism. 

A Universalist, in New Hampshire, opposed a re- 
vival, stole his wife's " church letter " to prevent her 
joining another, boiled with anger, broke down as 
if by reaction and exhaustion, confessed, reformed, 
believed, and was baptized. 

A little girl of twelve years, in Philadelphia, Pa., 
sitting by her mother sewing quietly, suddenly said, 
" Mother, do you pray ? " " No, daughter, do you ? " 
"O yes, mother." "Well, daughter, I'd like to hear 
3*ou pray." "Well, mother, ifyou'l kneel I will try." 
So they knelt, and the little daughter prayed ; and 
the mother was convicted, led to church, to the seat 
for prayers, by the daughter ; was converted, and 
baptized with her husband and the converted daugh- 
ter, who was a spiritual parent of both. 



184 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A young lady in San Francisco, Cal., by the 
name of Plank, met me in church, after my A. m. 
sermon, and said, "You remember me, don't you? 
I used to hear you preach in Pennsylvania, and you 
often called at my father's house." "Oh, yes; and 
I'm happy to see you. But how is it with your 
soul? Are you a Christian?" "Oh, no; I'm now 
under conviction." She wept. I asked her " if she 
were willing to give up all to Christ on the spot." 
"Yes, sir," she replied. I asked her to kneel there 
— in the Sunday-school; and I prayed for her, and 
she joined me in a low voice. I saw that she was 
just ready to go through the strait gate. I asked 
the pastor to send his wife and another good sister 
with the lady to the committee-room, and there pray 
for her. They did so. At the close of the Sunday- 
school she came forth rejoicing, and was soon im- 
mersed. Here was my first sermon and first convert 
on the coast, and I enjoyed afterward many more. 

A young lady in Rahway, N. J., of talent and 
education, trifled with the revival and God's people, 
preaching, ordinances, and things sacred, despite 
of her mother and friends. But once she called at 
the parsonage, and after a few minutes she fell pros- 
trate and cried for help. Prayer was made, and she 
felt some relief. Soon she retired to a chamber for 
the night. There she confessed her sins, prayed, 



REVIVAL INCIDENTS. 185 

and found peace ; while the church, by request, were 
praying for her. The next morning she said she was 
happy in Christ. 

Young Sherwin, of Vermont, was a fine youth, 
and singer, and became anxious in the revival. His 
good mother prayed much for him. I saw that she 
was in travail of soul, and I united with her for her 
son. Soon he was cut to the heart, came forward 
for prayers, and the next morning early called on 
me to tell of the joy of his soul. Then he sang 
" How happy are they," as he said he had never 
sung the hymn before. I soon baptized him, with 
one hundred and thirty others. 

An old sinner in Wilmington, Del., got deeply 
convicted in the revival ; went home in agony ; 
could not rest ; called up his family; got no help, 
but rather wounds, from his backslidden son ; sent 
for me at midnight to come and pray for him, lest 
he should die and be lost. The whole family were 
in awful distress. They found peace before morn- 
ing, and were soon immersed. The father said, it 
seemed to him that as the evil spirits went out, the 
Holy Spirit came in, till he was filled with joy. 

John Miner, of Vermont, was so pricked to the 
heart in a revival in Brattleboro', that he could not 



T S6 pearls of worlds. 

sit nor stand still, and made disturbance in church. 
He retired to the grave-yard to pray. Guilty and 
alone, he cried so loud as to raise the neighbors. 
Deacon Wood surprised him, and there prayed. 
John begged, confessed, and found peace, and came 
early the next morning to tell me the good news. 
He lived his religion. He was happy at the last, as 
when I baptized him. 

Mr. Moulton, of New York, was hopefully con- 
verted, and happy for a while. Soon he felt him- 
self injured, and so retaliated ; lost his joy and evi- 
dences ; adopted soon after Universalism ; kept a 
liquor hotel ; got Universalists to preach, and so 
opposed Orthodoxy. "But was like the troubled 
sea." He confessed afterward. During our re- 
vival in Floyd he was reconvicted, professed a 
change of heart, and was happy in being immersed. 
He said, " I think I was converted twenty-one years 
ago, but got angry and ugly, and had a miserable 
time of it, and have been a great stumbling-block.*' 
He here came to the stand and made his vows. 
Twenty years after, I met him, holding on faithfully. 

In Parma, N. Y., an infidel got mad at my 
preaching, disturbed the services, was set down by 
the esquire, and kept quiet. But the kind pastor 
said to me, "I'm sorry you preached so, brother." 
" Did I not tell the truth, and say it right? " I asked. 



REVIVAL INCIDENTS. 187 

"Yes, yow. did, truly," he replied ; "but he gave me 
two balls of butter the other day." I had here a 
very powerful season. 

A profane deist in Parma, N. Y., got sorely con- 
victed, or angry, and wandered off thirty miles to 
get freed, but felt worse, and returned. He sat in 
church with his head down, when I asked him how 
he was. He replied, "I wish you'd let me alone." 
"Well, sir, I shall, if you really mean so." " But," 
said he, "I don't know what I do want." "Well, I 
do," said I ; " come right out for prayers, and give 
your heart and all to Christ." Up and out he came, 
found peace on the spot, testified for Christ, and 
against error. 

Mrs. Monger, of Tolland, Conn., was deeply 
convicted and as soundly converted in a revival. 
How she talked and shouted in her first love ! 
" Why," said she, " my husband has now got a wife 
to help him. I've often felt unfit for him ; that I 
had no right to be the wife of such a Christian ; 
that I was an odd one when in company with his 
father's family and Christians. My children, too, 
I've put to sleep without praying for them. But, 
bless God, I shan't treat them so again. Oh, they've 
got a praying mother now. I'm happy." She was 
soon immersed, and felt at home with working, 
happy Christians. 





CHAPTER XV. 

RELIGIOUS EVENTS. 

BEACON B , at Rome, N. Y., after the 

extra meetings in a powerful revival were 
over, confessed : " It was avarice that deceived and 
robbed me, in keeping me from the meetings. I am 
guilty, and conscious of a great spiritual loss." 

The Moravians in Greenland for three years or 
more preached cold philosophy, reason, and the 
law, with no converts. Being almost in despair, as a 
last resort " Christ and him crucified " was preached, 
when one sinner was converted, and became a 
preacher, winning many souls to God, and pushing 
on the mission. 

A church-member in New York prayed often to 
be waked up. Soon after, while standing on the 
roof of his house, his feet slid, and down he fell to 
the pavement, to be taken up for dead. But on 
being revived he exclaimed, " O God, by terrible 
things in righteousness thou hast answered me." 

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RELIGIOUS EVENTS. 189 

A lady in Delaware, in a revival was in great 
distress, and wanted the physician ; but being prayed 
for, gave her heart to Jesus, and was well. 

General Jackson, having arranged his temporal 
affairs, often said, " I'm only waiting the marching 
orders from my great Commander on high." 

Martin Luther was convicted, when but a boy, 
by a flash of lightning, which killed his companion 
while walking by his side, and soon after converted. 
How mysterious ! 

A Jewish commander required, as a test of fitness 
of a soldier, that "he should cut off a left finger 
with his right hand." What sacrifice do we make? 

An infidel felt sick, strange, and got the doctor ; 
was questioned, diagnosed, and pronounced "all 
right." But then inquired, "What of the future?" 
The doctor replied, " I'm not the doctor to your soul. 
Read the Bible ; I believe it, and so must you." 
Both bowed in prayer ; the infidel confessed Christ, 
and was happy. 

Dr. Chalmers, at Greenock, on the Clyde, preached 
five hours without intermission or hoarseness, hold- 
ing the audience unflagging. 



jp PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A father got asleep on a precipice, while his pet 
child fell over it, and was killed. On awaking, he 
saw, and exclaimed, "Oh, I'm guilty! The blood 
is on me ! " Is the blood of souls on us? 

Dr. Franklin, once reproving a sluggish Christian, 
advised him to "say grace over his meat-barrels, 
and save labor." 

Mr. Bright, M. P., says: "The lower classes 
care as little for religious theories as the upper do 
for practice." Oh, let us practice and rejoice in 
religion ! 

A Christian in Baltimore, in a powerful revival, 
said, "If Christ were in the city in person, many 
professors would be ashamed to walk the street 
with him." 

A young girl in Pennsylvania, visiting a play- 
mate, asked her if she had family prayers. The 
infidel father curtly replied, "No," but tauntingly 
asked her to pray. "Well," said she, "if you will 
all kneel down, I'll try," and did so. Soon the old 
infidel began to cry and pray for mercy, and was 
converted. 

In Constantinople, a little girl taught her mother 
to read the Bible, till a missionary found her about 



RELIGIOUS EVENTS. T pi 

ready to tell her Christian experience to the 
church. 



A preacher in New York went home with a good 
sister, for supper, who praised parts of his eermon, 
and criticised the others. "Well," said he, "I was 
tired, hungry, and thankful, when you offered hos- 
pitalities. Your table is ample ; I can't eat crust 
nor bone ; so I eat what I can, with thanks, and lay 
the bone and crust one side ; and so fare well. Now, 
my sister, if you but do so with my preaching, you 
too will fare well." 

A deistical nobleman and his Christian wife had 
each a chaplain. When he was dying, he called to 
the Christian chaplain, saying, " I need you when I 
am dying." 

An infidel slaveholder whipped his slave, Caesar, 
for praying, but soon was so troubled and convicted 
for his sins, that he sent for Cassar to pray for his 
poor soul, and was converted. 

A poor peasant in England bid off at vendue an 
old dingy picture for a sixpence. Whether it was 
cat, dog, man, or watermelon, he could not tell; 
but washing it up, out came by degrees the full-sized 
portrait of John the Baptist. He was delighted. 



I9 2 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Governor Hill's son, of New Hampshire, asked 
Elder J. Knapp in derision to pray for him, which 
was readily done. He was soon deeply convicted 
and converted. 

Mrs. B complained of the faults of the breth- 
ren, and excused her broken vows to the church, 
but finally confessed that the faults were her own ; 
then promised better, and did so. 

Rev. G confessed in the pulpit that his great- 
est sin was in trying to soften down Scripture to suit 
his hearers, but prayed the Lord not to permit him 
to do so again. I said "Amen." How many are 
cowardly guilty ! 

A negro, convicted of sin, and knowing his duty, 
said, "I tried to get over the cross, under it, and 
then around it, but to no purpose. Finally, almost 
in despair, I took up the heavy cross, and it crushed 
me, well-nigh breaking my back; but looking up, 
and praying to God, it seemed to me I was going to 
heaven, cross and alL" Well, by the cross alone 
you gain the crown. 

Two pious women, knowing of a threatening in- 
fidel defying men to talk with him on religion, vis- 
ited him, gave tracts, and prayed till he cried, and 



RELIGIOUS EVENTS. 



193 



was converted. They soon returned to the revival 
meeting with him and reported. 

Hon. J. M. Clayton, on his death-bed, gave his 
testimony for "gospel religion, as worthy of adoption 
for this world and that to come." I talked to him on 
religion at Dover, Del. 

Mr. Dinsmore, of • Maine, said: "I saw justice 
with a sword, and Christ endeavoring to avert the 
blow from me. I heard the promises, believed, and 
felt happy." 

Bro. Learned, of New York, confessed his wrong 
to Mr. Wheeler, and the latter was soon a Christian. 

An able Scottish divine was much annoyed, while 
traveling in a stage, by two young collegiates swear- 
ing constantly. Soon he began to discourse elo- 
quently on the sublime works and word of God, 
closing his periods with the words, "Bottle, bottle, 
glass ! " " Oh, what a pity," said the profane youths ; 
"he is crazy." After a pause the minister spoke, 
saying, "No wonder you thought me crazy; but 
what must I think of you and your profanity? My 
words were innocent; but yours were wicked in- 
deed." Both were thunderstruck, confessed, re- 
formed, and one of the two became a preacher. 
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194 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Capt. R. Kidd burnt his Bible at Old Plymouth, 
Mass., and was then ready for robbery and soul- 
shipwreck. 

A missionary, being threatened with death by an 
enraged Indian, asked him to desist till after ser- 
mon ; but when Elder Jacobs was through, and ex- 
pecting the tomahawk, he heard a groan of distress 

from the convicted Indian, and soon saw him a 
Christian. 

Dr. Hitchcock says: "To preach in some feeble 
and decayed parish in some old States of our Union, 
is harder service than to go to Asia, or dusky 
Africa." 

Coleridge says : " True prayer is the highest 
energy of the human heart — the concentration of 
all the human faculties ; it is the greatest achieve- 
ment of Christian warfare." 

The Moravians call cemeteries ff fields of peace," 
but the Germans "harvest-fields of heaven." 

Galileo was only admitted to Christian burial one 
hundred years after his death. He had been ridi- 
culed and imprisoned for being fifty years ahead of 
the age. So it was in Christ's day, and is now, and 
will be till the end. 



RELIGIOUS EVENTS. 195 

A father induced his son to kneel in prayer by a 
tree, and asked God to convert him. He soon after 
saw the tree, felt, prayed, and was converted. 

Rev. Andrew Fuller says " he tried to comfort 
Christians by God's promises, but could not succeed 
till they engaged in Christian missions." 

Two sisters in Washington, D. C, went to law 
about ducks or geese, lost their money, spirit, use- 
fulness, and came near breaking up the whole 
church by getting them into the quarrel. 

A young boy, dying, said : " Tell father I'm gone 
to heaven. My only regret is, I'm not baptized. 
He wouldn't let me." His Baptist father repented 
of his act. 

When the steamer Henry Clay was destroyed on 
the Hudson River, conviction seized a passenger 
terribly. He vowed obedience to God for life, was 
eventually rescued, and converted. 

Hon. G L , of New York, while read- 
ing the Bible at family prayers, laughed out aloud, 
saying, " after his conversion in our revival meeting, 
everything seemed new, and so good." 



196 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

An Indian boy desiring baptism, seeing a good- 
sized ball at a store, bought it, and asked his pas- 
tor " how Jesus Christ could get into such a little 
vessel?" 

Bolingbroke said, " Now, as I am under affliction, 
I find my philosophy fails me." 

A Scottish lady said to a friend, " Come in. I've 
a house to hold a hundred, and a heart for ten thou- 
sand more." Like Lydia of old. 

John Wesley, being robbed by a highwayman, 
told him " some day he would be sorry for his acts, 
and want God's grace." Years after, at a meeting 
of brethren, the same man cried out, declaring him- 
self the robber, saved by grace. 

Said a sprig of Popery, " That's a Baptist trick. 
They succeed by always sending inquirers to the 
New Testament for instruction on Baptism." 

Judge B , of New Hampshire, being con- 
victed, and advised by his pastor to join the church, 
as many others had done, to find some relief, said, 
" No ; I'm not converted. I'm unfit." He went to 
the mountain to pray ; felt so wicked that he won- 
dered the ground did not open and swallow him up. 



RELIGIOUS EVENTS. 



197 



He prayed as a forlorn hope, found Christ, and 
came home rejoicing. He met the old pastor, got 
up extra meetings, and a glorious revival swept 
Westmoreland, N. H. 

A wicked, profane man in old Virginia, took an 
oath, and " called on God to damn him if he lied," 
and instantly dropped dead. 

As pastors in New York stated the large numbers 
added to their several churches for the month, 
one said " he had received only a few, and had 
rather a goose would lay one egg a day, than all at 
once and then stop." Barren comfort ! 

A boy in Pennsylvania was sick ; flattered by his 
doctor, and struck with death before suspecting it. 
Then said his doctor, " You can't live long ; if you 
wish to speak to your father, do it soon." "Why, 
doctor, you have said I would get well ; what did 
you mean?" The doctor was mute. The boy 
called his father, told what the doctor had said, 
and asked his father to " pray for him," saying, "I'm 
not fit to die ; " but he refused and left the room, and 
the mother too, leaving the crying boy to die in 
agony alone. Oh, prayerless parents, thus doing, 
you must account to God I 




CHAPTER XVI. 

HYPOTHESES. 

jOST. Supposing a gentleman has all his wealth 
in jewels, and crossing the ocean for pleasure, 
becomes so excited and sportive as to bet all on his 
skill to cast up and to catch them coming down. 
While doing this on deck, on one side, the ship 
takes a sudden lurch, by a gust of wind or roll of 
sea, his jewels, all suspended in the air, fall over- 
board ! " Oh !" he cries, "all is lost — my wealth 
is gone — I'm undone! Oh, what a fool I am!" 
The soul is a jewel worth more than the whole 
world. Will you sport and lose it? 

Merit. Suppose a gold coin from the mint, of 
due weight, quality, impress, value, and fit for cur- 
rency, finds its place, use, and praise ; will not 
ministers, men of learning, skill, power, and char- 
acter, be hailed and esteemed? 

Doom. Suppose I visit a prisoner, and find him 
so busy in his cell with marbles, straws, marks, or 
plans, as to feel no danger. I call to him, but no 

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HYPOTHESES. 



199 



answer. I call and knock louder and harder still, 
but only a cold look do I get. He is busy and 
careless. The day of execution comes ; the door is 
opened; the prisoner, seated on his coffin, rides to 
the gallows ; and all at once the spell is broken. 
He cries — he begs — he raves, in vain ; he dies by 
the rope ! Had he received his friend, a pardon 
was at hand. Will sinners neglect till Christ leaves 
them ; sign their own death-warrant, and hang 
themselves? 

Eyes Opened. Supposing seven brothers were 
all blind from their birth ; and six of them, by an 
oculist, should be cured ; and then seeing, should 
testify of the same to the only blind one, asking him 
to have his eyes opened too. They plead, argue, 
repel his doubts and excuses, tell their experiences, 
and assure him if he is only ready to trust the doc- 
tor, and will submit to his skill, the work shall be 
done immediately, well and gratis. He reflects 
and soliloquizes thus : " I'm blind, poor, helpless, 
as my brothers were, who do now all see ; I can 
be no worse if I confide and yield. I will ; I believe." 
It is done on the spot. The doctor operates. A 
keen sensation is felt. A ray of light, a pencil of 
rays, and then — bless God ! — the risen sun shines 
in. "Oh," he exclaims, " how beautiful ! Oh, my 
brothers, how lovely you are ! I love you all ! Oh, 



200 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

doctor, I'm happy — I thank you ! " And goes on 
rejoicing and obeying. Thus, O blind sinners, trust 
Christ now, and yield to free grace ; and you may 
see and rejoice, all gratis. 

Danger. Supposing a crater of a volcano were 
covered over with a crust so weak and frail as to 
give way at the least jar and let a dancer fall in 
amid the fires below, how careful we would be not 
to sport over the abyss ! How will you escape if you 
neglect the Savior? 

Supper. Supposing Mr. Astor, of New York, 
has provisions sufficient to supply the starving poor ; 
and gives due notice to all in New York to come 
with bag, basket, cart, or barrow, and take home a 
plenty of food, all gratis ; would they not all come 
with a rush, and thank him? O sinners, come now 
to the gospel wedding supper — to-day ! 

Suicidal. Supposing Mr. Astor, of New York, 
should offer to give provisions, clothing, and homes 
to all who would ask, in confidence. But instead 
of accepting freely, suppose that each one make an 
excuse, or express a doubt, or abuse the agents, or 
trifle and delay; if they all should starve and perish, 
would not their sin and blood be on their own heads? 
So will your guilt be, if you neglect duty and grace. 



HYPOTHESES. 201 

Example. Supposing a farmer has all things in 
good condition, quantity, order, and variety for 
prosperity. See how the minister, doctor, squire, 
gentlemen, or peasant, passing by, admire it ; and 
how gladly would they, in a moment, exchange 
theirs for such a home ! So would you. But sup- 
pose the very opposite of this farm. And who 
could be induced, on any terms, to exchange his 
own for such? So are Christians, the church, re- 
ligion, and their fruit, by their good examples; 
while their opposites are manifested ; and their dif- 
ferent influences are marked by the world. One 
example wins and saves, the other repels and de- 
stroys, souls. 

Liberty. Supposing you are guilty, condemned, 
and in prison for felony, and sentenced to be hung. 
I get a pardon from the governor for you, on condi- 
tions that you repent, confess, "turn State's evi- 
dence," reform, and be loyal. The jailer accom- 
panies me, and opens your door; I read you the 
pardon ; you gladly, with tears, accept it, with 
the conditions ; and thus save your life, liberty, 
character, and citizenship. Oh, for your soul's 
sake, guilty sinners, accept now the gospel terms; 
and be pardoned, free, rich, happy, useful, faithful, 
and glorified ! 



202 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Duration. Supposing the eternity of rewards 
be represented by the time of a bird occupied in 
transferring the earth, grain after grain, one particle 
in a million of years, piling it all on the moon ; 
and returning it back in the same slow way. Again 
transfer and replace it a billion of times in the same 
slow process ; yet neither time nor rewards in 
heaven or hell would begin to cease. Will your 
soul be in heaven or hell forever? 

Fire. Supposing you hold your finger in a 
blaze of fire, can you endure it? How can you 
dwell in eternal burnings, or a guilty conscience? 

Eternity. Supposing you were to attempt to 
represent the duration of the immortal soul by the 
sum of all the figures ever made, created things, 
and beings, above and below, multiplied by every 
thought, act, feeling, and imagination ; our product 
or calculations would only begin ; but not begin to 
exhaust the soul's eternity, in weal or woe ! 

Rewards. Supposing your soul were in heaven, 
or in hell ; while all the stars of heaven should fall, 
one by one, after every thousand years, till the last 
star should, leave its glowing socket; your joy or 
sorrow only begun in eternity would not begin to 
waste. 



HYPOTHESES. 



203 



Value. Supposing this globe were a precious 
jewel, worth millions of dollars a grain, it would not 
begin to buy the soul, nor pay the interest on it for 
a day. What will it profit you if you gain the whole 
world, and then lose your own soul, without ex- 
change or redemption? Oh, friend, take care of 
your soul ! Seek salvation by Christ ! 

Faith. Supposing Brother Dodge, a rich man of 
New York, should ride along, meet a poor washer- 
woman crying, and ask her of her trouble. She 
replies, " I can't pay my rent, fifty dollars ; and my 
landlord threatens to turn me out, children and all." 
"Oh," says Mr. Dodge, "you know me, dear wo- 
man ; here is my check for your debt." How thank- 
ful she is. But the neighbors wonder and doubt. 
Yet she replies, " I know Mr. Dodge, and can 
trust him. His check will pass like gold''' So now, 
my friend, trust Christ, his promise, and rejoice 
evermore. He has, too, paid the believer's debt. 
So let us rejoice, and go on doing good. 

Chances. Suppose, for the hope of unpaid-for 
gain, you raffle, draw lots, bet, play games of 
chance, or the like ; what you gain, others lose, and 
more too. Surely it is against the gospel and a re- 
ligious life ; a species of gambling, a disgrace to 
the Christian church, and a curse to community. 
There is a better way to raise funds for God, or life. 



204 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Saved. Supposing the natural house is on fire, 
with the mind, soul, heart, and conscience there, all 
dead and asleep in it. The fire-alarm bell strikes. 
K Fire, fire, fire ! " the watchmen and neighbors cry. 
But the sleepy sinner hears not. They run, cry 
aloud, knock and shake his door, and ring the 
palace-bell, shouting, " Fire, fire, fire ! Escape for 
your life!" He awakes, surprised and affrighted. 
Lo, the fires have cut off all the exits ! He sees no 
way of escape. Behold a friend cries without. To 
the chamber-window he comes, looks, but dares not 
leap. Awful ! Fire in the rear, death in his front ! 
A friend below bids him leap, but he fears yet, and 
clings to the casings. " Let go," says his friend ; " fall 
into my arms, trust my word, and you are saved ! " He 
yields his grasp, and falls into the arms of the blessed 
Jesus, as on a bed of down ; thanks God, obeys, and 
lives in a better house. 

Trust. The pilgrim sinner awakes and finds 
himself on a precipice overlooking an awful gulf. 
Cross he must, but how, is the momentous question. 
He cries, he looks, he trembles, and prays in forlorn 
despair, till a rope, like promise and hope, comes, 
quick as lightning, from the unseen above, with a 
voice of thunderous grace, shouting : " Seize the 
heavenly cord, look up, believe, spring with all 
your might for Canaan's shore, by faith in Jesus' 



HYPOTHESES. 205 



name, and you shall go over safe, stand on the 
blissful shore, and celebrate the great supper of the 
Lamb, with all the sons of God." He trusts, obeys, 
strives, and gains the race, the prize — a home be- 
yond the river, above the skies. Will you, O sin- 
ner, trust God, swing out on Christ's promise, in 
the Spirit's life -boat, and sail over death and hell 
into glory? What say you? 

Bail. Supposing, sinner-man, you are depraved, 
faulty, in debt, bankrupt, convicted, guilty, and con- 
demned, as you know you are, and have no money, 
merit, or power to cancel God's claims, or make re- 
conciliation, what then? Will you die in your sins? 
Why, you have no reason for despair. Christ has 
died for you. He has paid it all for the believer. 
Only look to him and live. Christ is our advocate, 
day's-man, and Savior. Have faith in God. 



GREETING. — (Auld Lang Syne.) 

Dear Savior, we rejoice to hear 

Poor sinners sweetly tell, 
How thou art pleased to save from sin 

From sorrow, death, and hell. 

Lord, we unite to praise thy name, 

For grace so freely given ; 
Still may we keep on Zion's road, 

And dwell at last in heaven. 



CHAPTER XVIL 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 




LDER J. KNAPP, when the mob threw stones 
into the church, in a revival meeting in Roch- 
ester, N. Y., bowed with the brethren in silent prayer 
till the mob dispersed. 

Elder Willey, of Ohio, said, " I have preached my 
best sermons to an infidel, and he didn't move. But 
along came a little, Jesus Christ preacher, and the 
infidel was converted." 

Dr. Carson's wife, of Ireland, on whom was the 
domestic responsibility, was urged in vain by her 
father "to accept the f Government-Gift,' to save her 
children from poverty and starvation ; " but she re- 
plied : " No, father ! God, who feeds the ravens, 
will not leave the young Carsons to starve ! " A 
wife worthy of her place ! 

Brother Vinton says : " Karen Christians are much 
distressed if their children are not converted before 
ten or twelve years of age." 

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RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 207 

Dea. L , of New Jersey, was greatly distressed 

in soul on his dying-bed, confessing "that he had 
always been afraid of doing too much for God ; " and 
died in the dark. 

Dr. L. Beecher preached once to only one hearer, 
who was soon after converted and became a preacher. 
Years after they both met, talked, and rejoiced to- 
gether. 

"Papa," asked a little girl, "do you pray?" and 
he was convicted, and soon converted. 

Alexander, when his treasurer refused to pay an 
artisan's bill because the charge was so exorbitant, 
ordered him to pay it, saying, " The artisan thinks 
I'm rich, and so I am. Don't complain of him." So 
our God is rich, and wants us to believe and ask ac- 
cordingly. 

Spurgeon's colloquy, as well as his unction and 
earnestness, give him great power over the multi- 
tude. Why don't you have the same? 

Aid being asked for, a good mother said, " I've no 
money, but will give my children." It was done. 
They grew up and became missionaries. So she 
did well. 



208 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A professor boasting " that his religion had cost him 
merely nothing," his pastor exclaimed, "God have 
mercy on your poor stingy soul ! " 

In England, a pastor set a day to meet and pray 
for rain ; so a little girl got her umbrella. Others 
laughed and quizzed her. "Why," said she, "if 
you pray for rain, won't God hear ? " The rain came ; 
and the pastor enjoyed the umbrella. 

A church wanted a pastor : popular, good writer 
and speaker, of eminent pulpit talents, for a salary 
of $350 a year. Dr. Rice replied : " Dr. Dwight 
would suit you. He has so long lived on spiritual 
food, I think he might easily live on the salary." 

Dr. Carson, of Ireland, had thirteen children, 
well trained, converted, and all immersed. What 
stars ! 

A sinner was awakened, convicted, and soon con- 
verted, by seeing two partridges arise and fly, tak- 
ing opposite directions, and viewing himself at the 
judgment-separation. 

A farmer said : "The gospel tells you to feed my 
lambs, but you ministers take pains to put the food 
so high that neither sheep nor lambs can reach it." 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 209 

Brother Spurgeon, describing Christ in the gar- 
den, said : " He wiped the sweat from his brow, and 
looking at it, he exclaimed, f O God, what is that?' " 
How I felt, visiting the spot ! 

A father said, "The minister baptized a babe." 
A little girl inquired, "Pa, did the baby believe? " 
He examined the Bible, and was immersed soon 
after. 

Dr. Cone, when crossing a street in Baltimore, 
heard something say, "This is your last call." He 
went to his office and gave all to Christ. 

A boy, wrecked, and in danger of being eaten by 
the cannibals at Fiji, was rescued ; and he finally 
established there a church of gospel order and prac- 
tice. 

John Bunyan said, "he felt worse when a spirit- 
ual child apostatized than to bury an own son." 

A sister in New York said in a revival, "that she 
had concluded it would be best to have religion 
enough, when about it, to enjoy it." 

A traveler on the Alps, bewildered and benighted 
in a storm, saw his peril and a gulf just before him 
by a flash of lightning, and was saved from a fatal 

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2IO PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

plunge ; and while standing aghast, another flash 
showed him a monastery, surmounted by a cross, 
near by, just in season for his rescue ; when he ex- 
claimed, " The cross ! the cross ! " and fled for refuge. 

A pilgrim, being severely chilled, on overtaking 
another just giving up, raised and rubbed him till 
both became warm, and went on together. 

In a revival in Burlington, Vt., Elder J. Knapp 
prayed, " that the roof of the Universalist church," 
just raised, " might never go on ; and that the mem- 
bers might be confounded or scattered like the Ba- 
belites." And so it came to pass. 

Elder J. Knapp prayed for a Universalist preacher 
in Erie, Pa., who often spoke and disturbed the re- 
vival meetings. In this way he prayed: "O God, 
convert this man from heresy, if it is possible. If 
not, O God, strike him dumb, that he may not lead 
souls to hell." He was thus struck, and went to 
doctors in New York for help ; but in vain. He re- 
tired in despair of ability to preach, and after ten 
years was only able to lisp. 

A brother in Floyd, N. Y., gained $200 and a 
blessing while attending a revival of six weeks, by 
the rise of grain, and not threshing his as others did. 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 2 II 

Chrysostom, the eloquent, prepared his sermons 
and preached as in God's presence, angels', and 
man's, with the curtain of eternity rolled up. 

A minister, praying for a wicked sick man, forgot 
him and wandered from his subject. With an oath 
the dying man exclaimed, "I didn't send for you 
to pray for the heathen, but for me." 

A Baptist church in New Jersey wanted a deacon, 
but had no material within ; so they deferred the 
election till after the revival meeting, in which they 
prayed especially for a man who was soon con- 
verted, and in six months after was made a deacon. 

A young man had committed much of the Bible to 
memory, but was not blest till he got it by heart, 
and got filled with its principles and precepts and 
the Holy Spirit. 

A young man, on being asked if he were a Chris- 
tian, replied, putting his hands on his shoulders, 
"I'm a Baptist, all above here I " 

An infidel addressed a Sunday-school girl thus : 
"You are getting your task, are you?" as she was 
studying. "Oh, no," said she; " it is my greatest 
pleasure." He was confounded. 



212 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Miss Spring, of fourteen summers, called on me 
for inquiry and prayer, but refused to yield or pray 
for herself. After two years, she hailed me walking 
the street, with delight, saying, "I've been con- 
verted, and am happy in the Savior." 

Two travelers on the Pyrenees Mountains saw a 
terrible storm just on them. Soon a shrill voice 
struck their ears, in their fright, "To the rock — to 
the rock ! " to which they hastened for life, and were 
saved. A moment later a mighty flood swept the 
path away. O sinners, flee to Christ — our Rock! 

A deacon, being called on "to pray short," re- 
plied, " I like praying, but I don't like to be stinted." 

A poor, ignorant sinner once cried to God for 
help, urging as a plea that he had never asked him 
for anything before. 



A negro said "he tried hard, and in vain, to give 
his heart to God ; but soon as he gave up his sins, 
and trusted Christ, his heart went itself." 

Hooker said, "Law has her seat in the bosom of 
God ; her voice is the harmony of the world ; and all 
things and beings must do her reverence." 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 213 

Neander said, "Plato could tell him of his wants, 
but Christ alone could supply them." 

An Indian, telling his experience, said: "I felt 
bad ; heart black as my skin ; saw a deep gulf, and 
stood on the edge, holding to a bush, as one after 
another gave way, and I held the last twig till it 
broke, and I fell, — then Christ catched me." 

"Are you in the land of the living ? " a friend in- 
quired by a note. " No," was the reply, "but I'm 
going there when I die." 

Bro. Day was struck under conviction, at Hamil- 
ton, N. Y., by seeing his missionary father's name 
written on the wall of his room, on entering, and 
was converted. 

Lord Wellington replied to an inquiring, hesitat- 
ing sprig of the ministry, "Mind your marching 
orders — f Go preach my gospel, saith the Lord ! '" 

The first telegram sent from Washington to Balti- 
more was, "What hath God wrought?" and this by 
a young lady, giving the first news to Mr. Morse 
that his bill was passed by Congress. May we 
preach by and like lightning ! 



214 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Lorenzo Dow, in Connecticut, was sued at law 
for keeping water back in his mill-pond over Sun- 
day, and was beaten. He soon took up the slash- 
boards, and opened his gates, by which the mills 
below were swept off, dams and all. 

Alexander Hamilton, on his death-bed, confessed 
his sins, his violation of his principles in dueling 
with Aaron Burr, and "wished Dr. Mason to give 
him the Lord's supper." 

After speaking and immersing a number of con- 
verts in Chester, Vt., the pastor of a church said 
to me, "When I baptize, and see any of your church 
present, I never say anything of the ordinance." 
How polite ! 

Dr. Porter, of Massachusetts, said, " It will be in 
the decline of a revival, and a sign of my want of 
the Spirit, when I take to writing sermons again." 

A negro said, "When people get religion them- 
selves, they are mighty apt to lose it as quick; but 
when religion gets them, it holds on, and never lets 
go till it takes them clean up to heaven." 

A passenger on board the ill-fated Arctic cried 
out, " Come back with the life-boat for me ! I'll 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 215 

give you thirty thousand pounds sterling if you, or 
any one, will save my life ! " But he lost all. 

When the two early Baptist churches in Boston, 
Mass., met to dissolve their declining prayer-meet- 
ings, a freed colored woman cried out, " Is God 
dead?" Then on rolled the meetings afresh, avail- 
ing much. 

The Christian says, " Man's soul is worth saving, 
because so much has been done for its salvation." 
Then look at the soul's origin., growth, knowledge, 
capacity, cost, and destiny, and now give all to 
Jesus for insurance. 

A little girl in Alabama, when at church, heard 
of heaven. On getting home, she cried out, 
"Mother, how big a place is heaven?" " Why, my 
child, what a question ! " answered the mother. 
"Well, ma, I suppose Mobile is a great deal bigger 
place than heaven, as you say more about it." 

A boy at school refused to say his letters, and on 
being questioned at home why he did so, replied, 
" If I had said A, then I must say B, and so on." 

A student in California took the Baptist side in a 
debate, and soon became a Baptist preacher. He 
found their proofs to be valid and overwhelming. 



2l6 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A Christian father doted on his only son for good 
care in old age. But his son moved down the Hud- 
son River a piece, — this was hard to the aged 
father ; then over the river, — this was harder ; 
then God took him home, — and this well-nigh 
killed the father. But soon by grace he said, "Now 
I'm resigned ; instead of my thoughts about my old 
home, or running down or over the river after my 
son, first in the morning, my mind shoots up to 
heaven, to my son, and my Jesus, and I'm happy, 
hoping soon to be there." 

A back-woods boy, going to a store, looked into 
a looking-glass for the first time, and cried out, 
K Mother ! mother ! Fve seen the devil ! " His hair 
and dress were frightful, and his looks too. No 
wonder at it ! How will it be with sinners viewing 
their hearts and lives? 

Young Couch,, in Pennsylvania, was convicted, 
and went to his bed sick. We exhorted him, and 
prayed. He soon arose, well and happy, rejoiced, 
embraced his parents, saying, "I love Christ and 
you ! " 

Miss B , of New Jersey, was deeply con- 
victed, but something prevented conversion. She 
then resolved to give up all for Christ, even the 



RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES. 217 

choice keg of cherry-rum kept for parties. No 
sooner had she rolled out the idol-keg and emptied 
it, than she had peace like a river. 

A pedobaptist sister being baptized by her pastor, 
he walking on a dry plank, pulled him off and into 
the river, saying, "Both went down into the water." 



BAPTISMAL SONG. (7S.) 

Christians, if your hearts be warm, 
Ice and snow will do no harm ; 
If by Jesus you are prized, 
Rise, believe, and be baptized. 

Jesus drank the gall for you, 
Bore the curse to sinners due ; 
Children, prove your love to him, — 
Never fear the frozen stream. 

Never shun the Savior's cross ; 
All the earth is worthless dross ; 
If the Savior's love you feel, 
Let the world behold your zeal. 

Brave the tempest, storm, and tide, 
Trusting to your heavenly Guide, 
Who will lead you by his grace 
To his blessed resting-place. 





CHAPTER XVIII. 

MORAL ANECDOTES. 

JICTOR HUGO says: "To those who offer 
'ts us war let us offer peace. They would fain 
darken our souls ; let us enlighten theirs. Let our 
only revenge be to give light." 

Dr. Duff's apology for no more converts in his 
India missions was, his strong belief in God's de- 
crees. 

Soldiers engaged in the heat of battle don't mind 
an earthquake. Let God's work engage us so. 

Shall we use the armor of the world to conquer 
it, or do as David did with Goliath's sword? 

It was said a child fell overboard, and a sailor 
plunged into the deep, saved the child, and was re- 
warded with twenty-five hundred dollars and thanks. 
Who will go to rescue sinners, and trust to God's 
reward? 

Three daughters, one at a time, asked their fa- 
ther's consent to go to a ball, and got it ; but not sat- 

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219 



isfied with his manner, asked again, when he said, 
"Daughters, you know my will and our rules. If 
you want to go to the ball you may — but not re- 
turn to my house." It was enough. 

George Washington having made a wise and 
kindly suggestion, General Braddock retorted, "Will 
a young Buckskin teach a British general how to 
fight?" But he fell a victim to pride, folly, and the 
Indians. 

One Captain Boyle, at Washington, D. C, said 
to me, "I hope there'll be war. We're unknown; 
it's our only way of promotion." It has cost infin- 
ities. 

John B. Gough says, "A genteel mother leaves 
her babe in the servant's arms, and nurses a red- 
eyed, homely poodle-dog in her own lap." How 
unnatural, ridiculous, and unchristian — akin to in- 
fanticide. 

A minister, first, took his text ; second, left it ; 
third, never returned to it. How many such ! 

A sailor in Boston, Mass., heard a popular min- 
ister, but disliked him, saying "there was no har- 
poon in it." 

Governor Briggs, of Massachusetts, once said to 
Hon. J. Q^ Adams, "I see, by reading, that your 



220 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

mother made you." "Yes," was the reply, " all that 
I am, or good I have done, I credit to my dear 
mother." 

Bulwer said : " I have closed my career as a wri- 
ter of fiction. I am gloomy and unhappy. I have 
exhausted my powers of life, chasing pleasure where 
it is not to be found." So it will be with novel- 
readers and worldlings. 

Alexander the Great carried Homer's " Iliad " in 
a golden casket "to read, and to inflame his love of 
military glory." Let us carry the Bible. 

A captain at sea in a storm said, "We must trust 
God for salvation." "Oh, captain," cried a woman, 
"are we so badly off as that?" 

The ancients once held court over the great dead, 
and if their records were good, eulogies followed. 
What if we should do so? 

George Whitefield said, "men were half beast and 
half devil ; nay, all beast and all devil." 

A snake may change his course, but keep his 
venom ; so may men, without love to God, or man, 
or the new birth. 

Hon. Henry Clay on his death-bed said, " I'm not 
afraid to die ; I have some hope, faith, and confi- 



MORAL ANECDOTES. 2 2I 

dence ; but I do not think any man can be quite 
sure as to his future state. Yet I have an abiding 
trust in the merits and mediation of our Savior. 
All else is vanity compared with religion." What a 
dying legacy ! 

Missionary Beecher says, "The heathen ask if 
they cannot be Christians, and still worship devils." 
How many such live among us ! 

A bad boy in the woods heard his echo, got an- 
gry, thought he was mocked, called epithets, and 
ran mad to tell his mother about the " bad boys." 
How is your echo? 

A deacon, reading the Bible, said, "I am proph- 
esying. If the pastor reads a sermon and calls it 
preaching, why then is not my reading prophecies 
prophesying?" 

Lord Byron said : " I have had eleven so-called 
happy days, and I wonder if I can ever make up a 
dozen." So he lived in infidel gloom. 

Said a negro, with his needy children, ?t the 
death of his wife, "I'm resolved to do the best that I 
can, and the Lord will provide." Well, that is the 
true principle. 

A bondholder hid a bond, and forgot where. 
Soon after, while in danger of drowning, all his life 



222 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

flashed up to view, and the bond lay in a book, all 
safe for his rescue. How is it about your treasures 
in heaven? 

"Mr. Webster, don't you dance?" asked a young 
fop at a ball. "No, sir," was the reply; "I never 
had the capacity to learn." 

A preacher once said " his sword caught some- 
thing behind, so that he could not swing it and strike. 
So he looked over his shoulder and saw his deacon 
hanging on the end of it." 

Queen Elizabeth on her death-bed declared that 
" she would give an empire for a single hour." 

A preacher neglected his duty to a sinner, who 
suddenly died in his sins. Said the minister, " His 
blood is on me ; " and he wept, prayed, and rolled 
in agony for ten days and nights, till he found par- 
don and peace in Jesus. How many are guilty of 
souls' blood ! 

Diogenes said, " the bite of slanderers or flatterers 
was the most dangerous of wild or tame beasts." 
Yes, except one's own bite ! 

" Marry old," say they : " if bad, it is soon enough ; 
if well, you'll be glad you've waited so long for each 
other." So save your divorce. 

Cannibals and turkey-buzzards won't eat tobacco- 
users. And no wonder at all. 



MORAL ANECDOTES. 223 

The managers of the Walnut-street Theater, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., once advertised to admit none but 
virtuous persons. Only fifteen came the first night, 
and twenty-two on the second ; so on the third they 
opened the doors for all, for a support. Can true 
Christians attend or sustain theaters? 

How a dear little child likes to put on father's 
shoes, or try to tread in his footsteps in the white 
snow ! How should we follow Christ? 

Dr. Peabody says, "Nature and art are identical ; 
as man does what he sees God do in nature." Yes, 
the perfection of art is to be natural, in professions, 
manners, and relations. 

A traveler went into a cave with a lamp and ball 
of twine. After roving about a while his lamp goes 
out and his twine breaks. He falls, he calls, he 
crawls, and dies. 

A sprig of nobility, outdone by a self-made man, 
said in his chagrin, "You once blacked my father's 
boots." "Well, sir, did I not do it well?" was the 
reply. This is the secret of success. 

Apelles, being asked why he touched and re- 
touched his pictures so much, replied, "I paint for 
eternity." Let us act so, preach so, and what a rich 
legacy we shall leave ! 



224 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A blue father used to flog his boys in the morn- 
ing, " for," said he, " they will need it before night." 

A New Orleans gentleman met a young gover- 
ness in New York with a bevy of children, and was 
so pleased with her spirit, person, and manner, that 
he married the poor girl ; took her to his splendid 
home ; obtained teachers for his wife ; and made 
her a happy co-partner for life. How much more 
Christ has done for his bride ! 

Augustus Csesar made tyranny appear so beauti- 
ful by his amiability as to destroy the love of liberty 
among his subjects. So do Satan and his angels. 

A man once lifted eight hundred pounds ; was 
offered fifty dollars to do so again ; tried, ruptured a 
blood-vessel, and died. Never overdo, say, nor eat ! 

Napoleon I. said "he feared four hostile newspa- 
pers more than a hundred thousand bayonets." 

A philosopher, when dying, said, w I thank God 
I have made as much of myself as I could." But 
all is vain without love and faith in Christ. 

In a storm at sea, when the passengers were at 
their wits' end, all wondered that the captain's little 
son was so calm. He firmly replied, "Father 
is at the helm ; he never lost a ship ! " Will you 
trust God? 



MORAL ANECDOTES. 225 

Never fret at what you can't help, for it will do no 
good ; nor at what you can help, for it is easier to 
relieve yourself. 

A girl, in Massachusetts, stole a handkerchief and 
gave it to a benevolent society. Antipodal passions ! 

A Boston merchant said he could not weep over 
sinners. But hearing of his lost vessels at sea, he 
wept like a child the next moment. 

An Indian tried to lasso a locomotive, and got an 
awful twitch ; but the engine went as well as ever. 
So should we ever go on trusting in God. 

" Paint me as I am," said Cromwell to his flatter- 
ing artist, " scar and all, or I will not give you a 
shilling." That is the true principle. 

A Chinaman said "he wanted to be a Christian, 
but to let go the Ten Commandments." How much 
of the same spirit is among us ! 

A soldier, to excuse himself, said " he could not 
go on duty, for he had so many watches to fix for 
the men." Have ministers other work? 

A Moslem servant going up the Nile, on being 
criticised for neglect, said, "Oh, I did up all my 
praying for the voyage before we started." How 
many such ! 

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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



Dr. Franklin, taunting a lazy professor for neg- 
lecting table thanks, " advised him to say grace 
over his meat-barrel, and save trouble." 

The river Nile, receiving no tributaries on the 
way, is as big in Ethiopia as in Egypt, or at its 
mouth. Oh for daily food, that we may grow ! 

An old lady, seeing a horse running away with a 
wagon and child, ran after them and hallooed terri- 
bly, "Stop that horse!" One cried out, "Is that 
your child?" "Oh, no," said she; "but, oh! 'tis 
somebody's child, all the same ! " Let selfishness 
go, and let us save souls. 

A President once, forgetting his reform, got 
his mouth filled with the " old filthy weed " before 
he was aware of it, but immediately threw it away, 
substituting india-rubber to pacify his mouth. 

A king, swearing before a subject, was politely 
rebuked by him thus, "Shall not my lord the king 
fear an oath?" Then the king rebuked his lords 
for gross neglect of duty, but commended the hon- 
est, faithful peasant. Trust God, and be faithful. 

Daniel Webster said, "The greatest thought or 
idea of my life is my responsibility to God." 



MORAL ANECDOTES. 227 

Moral reform by degrees is like a magazine ex- 
ploding without noise, or a sitting-hen standing up 
over her eggs, or cutting off limbs by inches till 
death-struck. 

"My name is Flint in America, a stone of a gun 
in France, Peter Gun in England, and I'm not 
known on my return," said Mr. Flint. How is it 
with your Christian name or character? 

The " fabled " lion refused a challenge from the 
skunk, saying, " If I get the victory, the world 
will know what I've been fighting with." Pass by 
such ! 

A child being asked her father's occupation, re- 
plied, " He is a great accident-maker for news." 

A helmsman, bidden to steer to the north-star, 
got asleep; and on waking up, not knowing where 
the ship was, cried out, "Captain, where now? I've 
got beyond the north-star ! " So infidels think of 
the Bible. 

Galileo was condemned for asserting the fact "that 
Venus shines by borrowed light, and that from the 
sun, the center of the solar system." 

The watch-clock betrays the careless or sleepy 
watchman, by his neglect to pull out the pins. 
Shall we neglect to win souls in due time? 



22 8 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Napoleon I. employed an artisan to make him a 
war-proof cuirass. When it was done and war- 
ranted, Napoleon said to him, "Put it on and let me 
try it." The artisan trembled, but could do no less. 
Napoleon used pistol, gun, bayonet, and found it 
proof, and awarded him a double price. Let us 
prove our armor and our title. 

A minister said to a rich gentleman with a fine 
garden, " Would it not be better to save all this and 
give it to the poor? " " I have given it all to them," 
said the host, " kept them out of idleness, paid them 
all at night, and have saved all this, you see, extra." 

As a bird puts a leaf over her young in the nest to 
preserve them from enemies, so the Bible saves us, 
and Christ shields us by his grace. 

Substitute. — A lame, poor, distressed soldier of 
the last war was seen day by day passing to and fro 
by the Washington White House. One day " Thad," 
President Lincoln's son, noticing him, made in- 
quiries and offered his sympathy. " Oh, no," said 
the soldier, " I'm a guilty man, I want a pardon, but 
your father won't let me in to see him ; he is thronged 
with company, and you can't help me." " Oh, yes, 
I can," said Thad ; " come right along with me." 
So they pressed on and within, despite the opposing 
guards, till near his father's " presence-chamber." 
Herewith the weeping, trembling soldier held by his 






MORAL ANECDOTES. 



229 



arms, he was peremptorily refused admission. So 
Thad cried aloud till his father heard, knew the 
voice, and granted his request for their admission 
to his presence. Thad stated the soldier's sad, 
guilty, dangerous case, and begged for his own 
sake the President would hear the penitent confes- 
sion and humble plea of the contrite, confiding sol- 
dier, as his own friend and brother. Thus, for his 
own son's sake, President Lincoln heard, pardoned, 
and reinstated the redeemed soldier, granting all at 
his son's request — free grace. So Christ intercedes 
with the Father for poor, guilty sinners, honors the 
law, gets them free, and more than reinstates them. 
They become heirs and joint-heirs and inheritors of 
the White House above. 



All that I was, my sin, my guilt, 
My death, was all my own ; 

All that I am I owe to thee, 
My gracious God, alone. 

The darkness of my former state, 
The bondage, all was mine ; 

The light of life in which I walk, 
The liberty, is thine. 

Thy grace first made me feel my sin, 
And taught me to believe ; 

Then in believing, peace I found, 
And now I live, 1 live. 





CHAPTER XIX. 

THRILLING ANECDOTES. 

g PAINTER, falling from a high staging, 
caught hold of a cornice and hung by his 
grasp. Others saw his sad exposure, procured 
beds, and bade him "let go and fall on the beds 
placed below ; " but seeing the distance he hesi- 
tated, trembled, then, exhausted and despairing, 
let go, fell on the beds of down unharmed, and re- 
joiced with his friends. So sinners suspended over 
hell should fall into the arms of Jesus. 

A couple in Philadelphia, Pa., lived seventeen 
years together, had a family, were unmarried and 
unconverted. They, under our preaching, were 
deeply convicted, went out of church, got married 
by Dr. Gillette, and came back to us rejoicing. 
May sin so find you out in the day of grace ! 

A painter in St. Paul's, London, England, viewing 
his work, while stepping backwards, was saved from 
a fatal fall by a friend, who, seeing the danger, 
threw a paint-brush and spoiled the picture, but 

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THRILLING ANECDOTES. 231 

saved the artist. God often does so, to save men 
from idolatry and the pit. 

A traveler in a freshet, at night, on horseback, 
rode over a river on a string-piece. After morning 
light came, finding that the bridge had been swept 
off before he crossed the river, he fainted at the sight. 
What hair-breadth escapes your soul has made ! 

Col. Drummond swore "he would eat his breakfast 
in Fort Erie or in hell ; " and was soon blown up 
while crying, " Give the Yankees no quarter." 

Said a judge once to a guilty culprit, "Never 
mind, I'll do you justice." "Ah, your Honor, that's 
just what I'm afraid of, sir," said the prisoner. 

After Voltaire's death, when his doctor sent for the 
nurse of his patients, the woman would ask the doc- 
tor, "Is he a Christian? for I was the nurse of Vol- 
taire, and for all Europe I would never see another 
infidel die." 

" Daniel Webster's property was valued at seventy- 
four thousand dollars, but his debts were one hun- 
dred and sixty thousand," said the JV. Y. Times. 
What a mental locomotive ! yet what a death-wreck ! 

Lord Lyndhurst said, " Lord Byron got four thou- 
sand pounds of his divorced wife's money to spend 
on his Italian mistress." Sodomites are doomed ! 



232 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A cruel man in Vermont forbade his family to 
pray in his house, and whipped them out of his barn 
for praying. On his death-bed he confessed, prayed, 
swore, rolled, raved against God, and died, biting his 
tongue half off. What a sad picture of the lost in 
hell! 

A Mr. Howard, of Vermont, was convicted of his 
sins at twenty years of age, but excused himself on 
account of his youth and associations, and with some 
promises for the future. At thirty, God called again 
and reminded him of his promises. But he now 
made other excuses of a domestic and business na- 
ture, and renewed his promises. At forty the Lord 
called on him for the third time, and reminded him 
of his many vows. But now he excused himself 
finally, without even making a promise, and replied, 
"Go thy way for this time." God did leave him. 
Soon after, on his death-bed, he called his family 
around him, and said, "I have prospered in busi- 
ness, but I've lost my soul. I see my sin and folly 
and doom. At twenty I might have been saved; 
the Spirit strove. At thirty and at forty I might 
have become a Christian ; yea, the Lord called. But 
now the day of grace is gone forever, and I am 
doomed to hell. Oh, my dear ones, take warning 
from me ! " He thus died in despair and misery, 
amid a weeping family. Oh, do not procrastinate, 



THRILLING ANECDOTES. 233 

my dear friend, and lose your soul and all hope of 
salvation ! 

Cicero, the Roman orator and lawyer, was slain 
by the very criminal whom he had once defended 
when accused of patricide. What think you of un- 
grateful sinners crucifying their Savior? 

Mr. W , of Pennsylvania, being sick of heart- 
disease, sadly confesses : "I have brought it on by 
wronging a poor widow, going to law with her and 
getting defeated ; then becoming angry, hateful, and 
violent, I swore blasphemously, till filled with hor- 
ror, and brought on this heart-complaint. Medicines 
are but aggravations, and religion mocks me. Oh, 
I knew my duty, I did it not. I might have been 
saved if I had yielded all up when God called ;.but 
now my day of grace is over — 'tis too late ! " He 
died in misery. Worldly men, beware, and profit 
by this ! I can almost see him as he said this. Oh, 
how he looked ! 

Mirabeau, the infidel, when speech failed him, 
wrote on his table, " Death is but a sleep," and 
called for opium to end his flickering life — a -plunge 
into hell ! 

A lady of Europe, of high class and accomplish- 
ments, orl ship coming to America, by some mis- 
hap fell overboard, and had sunk once, twice, and 
was just turning to sink for the last time. All were 



234 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

gazing in awful anxiety and solemn silence, as if all 
hope of her rescue were gone. But no ! A stalwart 
sailor of ocean heart, with brawny arms, saw, felt, 
plunged down just in time, caught her by the hair, 
and rescued her from an ocean grave, and presented 
her alive and happy. Oh what gratitude ! Soon 
as she was able she exclaimed, "You, dear sailor, 
have just saved my life ! My all I owe to you, my 
friend ! To you, dear sir, I give in return my heart, 
my hand, my fortune for life." He reciprocated. 
On arriving at Boston, Mass., they were married, 
and went on rejoicing. How grateful to Christ 
should we be for salvation ! 

Monroe Edwards, the forger, trying to escape from 
prison, said "his soul was in such agony that he 
gnawed his fingers to see if his body was still alive," 
and soon died in terror. He had been hale and 
comely as a fop. Pride doomed his soul. 

A chieftain, shot with two balls, seeing his clan 
waver, raised on his elbows, the blood streaming 
from his side, exclaimed, "I'm not dead, but looking 
to see you do your duty ! " God's eye is on us. How 
are we? 

A young hunter of rabbits by accident got a fatal 
charge in his side. On getting home he said, when 
asked if he wanted the minister, "No, no; it's no 
use ; too late ! Once I might have been blessed, 



THRILLING ANECDOTES. 235 

but now I'm dying. Farewell, friends, I'll never 
see you again." So he died in despair. Dear 
youths, take warning. w Fear not, only believe." 

Young Thompson, visiting Niagara Falls, sat near 
the edge of the rushing waters, became dizzy, and 
took a fatal plunge out of sight. So do the wicked. 

A sportive man, at Niagara, took a little girl by 
her arms and swung her over the edge of the falls, 
but by accident let her slip from his grasp to take a 
fatal plunge into the foaming gulf below. Awful ! 
Seeing what was done, the reckless criminal became 
frantic and her parents wretched. But the darling 
child was gone out of sight. How souls may be lost 
by your guilty carelessness ! 

A captain, drinking a toast, said, " Boys, Liver- 
pool or hell ; " and soon struck a rock and sunk, ship 
and all. A double crime and loss ! 

A man in Iowa, while blaspheming God, was 
struck with palsy and soon died. How gracious the 
Lord to spare and save us ! Oh, make salvation 
sure ! 



With mind and heart I love the Lord, 
The brethren, prayer, and Holy Word ; 
His Spirit and my soul attest 
Till mighty grace shall give me rest. — E. A. 





CHAPTER XX. 

AWFUL ANECDOTES. 

"Now all these things happened to them for ensamples." 

i Cor. x. ii. 

IJH GIRL, often warned of sin and danger, de- 
layed till her death-bed, and then exclaimed, 
"I'm lost! Tis too late! Oh, hide me from the 
Almighty ! I won't — I can't meet God ! " and died 
in misery. 

An infidel, going West to sell his books, was bold 
and boastful, till a gale on Lake Erie frightened him 
to fall on his knees and call on God for mercy. 
While thus confessing, a heavy sea swept him and 
books away. 

Four boys in Connecticut crept under a maga- 
zine ; bored a hole up, for powder ; made a fatal ex- 
periment by their theft, killing two of them by the 
explosion, and wounding the other two fatally. 
" Sin found them out." You can not trifle with na- 
ture or grace with impunity. 

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AWFUL ANECDOTES. 237 

A father, at a raising in Massachusetts, left a 
K bent " half up to see his boy in a scuffle ; and down 
came the half-raised timbers and killed six persons. 
How responsible I 

The ship Idumea, of Hamburg, collided and 
sunk. Some passengers seized their money-belts, 
plunged overboard, and sunk; while others let all 
go, and saved their lives. Let us save the soul ! 

Volney, the infidel, while in great peril on the 
ocean, cursed the captain, and then called on God 
for mercy. Just like reprobates ! 

Dr. Campbell, of New Hampshire, was very 
skillful, but drank hard. He abstained for a while ; 
and when about going from home on a visit, his 
dear wife " exhorted him not to drink." With an 
oath he said, " If I drink a drop, I'll come home a 
dead man." And so it was. Getting with old tip- 
pling friends, he drank eleven glasses of spirits, and 
on his way home got upset, his skull broken, and 
was found dead the next morning, lying with his 
horse in the gutter. What a spectacle ! 

A drunkard in Pennsylvania abused his family. 
Seeing them fleeing for life to escape a freshet in 
the Schuylkill, he looked on, boasted and swore, till 
the flood swept him and house away. Lodging in a 
tree in the river, he cried for help of those looking 



238 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

on from the shore ; then prayed aloud to God, till, 
chilled and exhausted, he fell and perished in sight 
of weeping spectators. Oh, ye tipplers ! 

An infidel in Ohio was enraged by a revival, and 
cursed God, saying, "If I could, I would twist Jesus 
Christ's neck for him ! " At once his own head was 
turned a quarter round, facing over his shoulder. 
All present were thunderstruck. What a visitation ! 
Oh, the blasphemers ! 

An infidel in Penn Yan, N. Y., was disturbed by 
a revival, waylaid Elder Jacob Knapp three succes- 
sive nights with murderous intent, but was evaded 
and disappointed, for on each night Elder Knapp 
went providentially on other routes. He, however, 
continued to oppose and rage till he was "panic- 
struck," as the doctors said, and lay on his death- 
bed, with eyes protruded, tongue elongated, looks 
haggard, and skin yellowed, till exhausted in death. 
What a warning ! Awful judgment ! 

Mr. John Fry, of New Jersey, opposed and ridi- 
culed the revival and evangelist, till, being kicked 
down by a vicious horse, he cried out, "I'm a dead 
man ! I'm going to hell ! Oh, pray for me ! But 
'tis too late; I meant to get religion ! Oh, have 
Elder Meade pray for me ! But God is too quick 
for me ; I'm sure of hell as if I were there ; " and 
died in awful agony. I was clear ! 



AWFUL ANECDOTES. 239 

Miss Rugg, at Niagara Falls, leaned and reached 
to pluck an extended flower hanging from Table 
Rock, lost her balance just in the act of cutting the 
rose-stem with her finger-nail, pitched over, and 
took the fatal plunge down the falls. Oh, how sin- 
ners hazard their souls over hell ! 

Miss Bourns, climbing the White Mountains of 
New Hampshire, lost her company and way, amid 
fog, mist, and cloud ; got tired, chilled, sat down, 
and died. Her company missing her, hunted, 
watched, and fasted, till she was found a sleeping 
corpse near Mount Washington "Tip-Top House." 
When I was there, a crescent wall marked the sad 
spot. Oh, wandering sinners ! 

Dr. Palmer, of England, insured the life of his 
rich wife for thirteen thousand pounds, and the life 
of his brother Walter for thirteen thousand pounds, 
and, as proved in court, poisoned them with strych- 
nine to get money and means enough to pay up 
gambling debts. He then, in the same way, poi- 
soned a Mr. Cooke to procure funds to meet his for- 
geries, and was convicted and hung. What de- 
pravity, results, and warning ! 

Three boys in Ira, Vt., sent by a drinking father 
to buy rum, returning home, let the bottle fall, and 
so badly broke it that to save the liquor they drank 
it up and got drunk; two of them died, and the 
other just lived. 



240 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A Frenchman, having murdered both father and 
mother, cried out, on trial, " Have mercy on a poor 
orphan ! " 

A visitor in England, seated in a tub, descended 
a coal-mine to view the deep pit. Soon he became 
tired of darkness, dismal sights, bad air, and hideous 
colliers. So he tried to return, to get help, a guide, 
and a light, but in vain. He walked, crawled, 
prayed, wept, and hungered, well-nigh in despair, 
when suddenly a gleam of light inspired hope and 
effort. He soon gained the old tub, got in, gave the 
signal, ascended part way, when a strand of the 
rope broke, a second and a third gave way, till in 
agony he cried for help. In a moment an extra 
rope comes to his grasp, just in time for his rescue. 
When he saw his salvation, he swooned for joy. 
How much like sinners saved by grace ! 

A sordid priest, stealing jewels from dead bodies 
in a tomb, plucked one after another till his bag and 
pockets were filled, and his taper burnt out. Then, 
groping and crawling about, all bewildered and ex- 
hausted in woes, he died. Soon after the sexton 
found the marks, the signs, and the priest, with all 
the proofs and base plunder on him, condemning 
him. Sinners eat their own fruit: their sin finds 
them out. They cannot hide their sins, nor escape 
God's eye or reward. 



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241 



President Polk, when on his death-bed, being 
alarmed, said, "If, twenty years ago, I had thought 
of coming to this unprepared, I should have been a 
most miserable man. I'm not at all ready to die. 
I have made no preparation ; I have not even been 
baptized." But he got a minister to sprinkle him 
just before he died. God requires conversion. 

When Ethan Allen's daughter was on her death- 
bed, she inquired of him whether she should die in 
her mother's faith or in his (infidel) faith. Hesitat- 
ing a moment, he replied, "Believe as your mother 
has taught you." O Christian mothers ! 

A traveler in India, seeing a huge boa-constrictor 
charming a bird, which was fluttering and ap- 
proaching the hungry serpent, became at once won- 
derfully captivated, and began to approach the snake. 
The bird suddenly flying away, he viewed with de- 
light the beauties of the siren snake, till up and 
round his neck it twined. Soon the traveler felt 
the tightening coils, came to himself, caught his 
knife, and cut the coils asunder just in time to save 
his life, and his body from the slime and jaws of the 
deceitful serpent. On being free, he fainted. Oh, 
let us cut with the gospel sword the coils of Satan ! 

Bruce, dying, willed his heart to his friends, who 
preserved and carried it in a silver vase to war 
against infidels, and throwing it, when they could 
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242 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

go no farther, cried, "Forth, heart of Bruce; we 
will conquer with you or die." Let us take the 
name and heart of Jesus. 

An inebriate in New York was convicted and 
seeking salvation, when old sinful comrades took 
him out to ride, treated him, got him drunk, and 
left him to grieve over his apostasy, and die in 
misery. 

A girl's brother in Philadelphia shot Heberton, 
her seducer, while he was escaping from justice for 
a refuge in New Jersey. The avenger ferreted out 
the criminal, and killed him. 

Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, a Universalist 
preacher, was sad and convicted, and confessed to 
Dr. Griffith, his physician, that his error and guilt 
were tf knowingly deceiving souls to hell, and this 
haunted him continually." Self-condemned, he 
hanged himself, like Judas. 

Mr. Fisher, of New Hampshire, a worldly farmer, 
was convicted, but wished to get his home and busi- 
ness all right first, promising to attend to his soul's 
salvation next. But God smote him in the field, 
and he begged to be carried home, and for prayers ; 
but confessed that " it was too late ; his soul was lost 
by his neglect." 

A hotel-keeper in Rochester, N. Y., became en- 
raged, in a revival, by the conversion of some of 



AWFUL ANECDOTES. 243 

his patrons, and their exposure of the bad doings in 
his house. He cursed Elder Knapp for noticing his 
hotel, raised a mob, and stoned the Baptist church 
in preaching-time, when the brethren engaged in 
secret prayer for God's intervention. Soon from an 
almost cloudless sky the most awful lightning 
gleamed, and tremendous peals of thunder rolled, 
surprising and shaking all around. The noisy mob 
of a hundred or more were confounded, and so, 
affrighted, fled away in cowardly haste. The ser- 
vices went on with renewed power. The vile inn- 
keeper arrested Elder Knapp for libel, and put him 
under a two-thousand-dollar bond to appear at court ; 
but before the next term, God killed one of the firm, 
drove off the associate, and broke up this drinking, 
gambling hell, and the lawsuit, too. The wrath of 
man shall praise God, and help his children. 

Mr. C , of New York, talked Universalism 

in a bar-room, opposed the revival, went home and 
abused his weeping wife, became intolerable, and 
God smote him dead, and blessed his family. 

Captain Robert Kidd felt horror-struck at his first 
murder, less at the second, third, and fourth, and so 
on, till he felt no more in killing a man than a beast. 
What a Pharaoh ! 

Burroughs, the thief and counterfeiter, confessed 
his crimes and kleptomania , saying, " I have been 



244 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

poisoned by novel-reading. Youths, beware of the 
vitiating practice." Thus mad-houses, courts, and 
divorces testify. 

A boy stole an axe, and threw it into a pond to 
hide it, and holding on to the handle, got in and 
drowned. On examining the pond, many articles 
of theft were found with his body. Sinners, like 
Israel, destroy themselves. 

Virgilius was condemned to be burned for assert- 
ing the existence of the antipodes. 

Ignorance, sin, and prejudice are bad persecutors. 

Galileo was condemned for discovering and using 
the telescope. It is so with all leaders. 

A traveler on Mount Vesuvius daringly left his 
guide and company, slipped, and fell down the cra- 
ter a hundred feet, but struggled and cried till he 
died. So rash, daring sinners play till the final day. 

Francis Spira apostatized, denied Christ, and died 
in awful agony — an earnest of hell. 

A pleasure party on the coast of Norway char- 
tered a vessel to go on the excursion. Old pilots ad- 
vised and warned them, and friends dissuaded, but 
all in vain. The heedless party, like sinners, were 
soon going in the outer cycles of the maelstrom, and 
then more swiftly sailing in the inner ones, till all at 



AWFUL ANECDOTES. 



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once they spied their danger, plied the rudder, sail, 
and oars ; but all in vain. They cried, prayed, and 
yelled ; all were running and rushing to and fro, 
from stem to stern, in consternation wild, till in a 
final moment the veering ship turned on her beam- 
ends, and spilled or wrapped them all in the vortex 
of the whirlpool, with voices hushed in death. Let 
sinners of the outer circles of sin escape the vortex 
of hell. 

A ship in a maelstrom, with a disobedient crew, 
was left by the captain for one near by offering help, 
and was saved, while the drinking, dancing, and 
heedless crew went down, old ship, crew, and all. 
Now is the time for salvation. 

A young couple in Virginia rode twenty miles to 
a ball. Often on the way the lady complained of 
cold at her extremities, but soon said, " I now feel 
all right." On arriving at the hotel, she was found 
chilled or frozen to death, sitting upright. Where 
was her soul? 



Oh, ye young, ye gay and proud, 
You must die and wear the shroud ; 
Time will rid you of your bloom, 
Death will drag you to the tomb ; 
Then you'll cry and want to be 

Happy in eternity. 







CHAPTER XXI. 

DRINKING ITEMS. 
"Do not drink wine nor strong drink.'''' — Lev. x. 9. 

RUM-DRINKER once bet he could name 
any liquor when blind-folded, and did so, till 
water was given him ; he then gave up his bet, say- 
ing that " he had never tasted such in his life." He 
was mouth-and-soul-hard. 

John B. Gough, in England, was introduced as 
one working almost a miracle — "having brought 
water from the jawbone of an ass." Oh, reformed 
drunkards ! 

"Papa," said a child, "the tavern is finished. I 
saw a man come out drunk." The " sign " was out. 

A Scottish minister once lectured a Frenchman 
on his infidelity, but was met with criticisms and in- 
vidious retort : " Oh, you Scotch-whisky Christians ! " 
What a lesson ! 

A prodigal son returned home, sat at the table, 
stopped eating, and said to his backslidden father, 
"I can't eat till you say grace." It was effective in 
reforming both. 

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Fashionable drinking is a false crutch for nature's 
decrepitude, full of deceit and cadences. 

It is irrational for a man to drink, overload his 
stomach, and destroy his prospects, as to let in the 
burning sun on his weak eyes, or to take fire coals 
into his bosom to warm him. 

A tipf>ler in England boasted "that he could 
drink two gallons of hell a day." But how will he 
" drink the cup to the dregs " there? Awful ! 

A parson and a parishioner drank ; one regularly, 
the other periodically ; but both came to the same 
sad end. Tipplers, stop now ! 

A minister in England preached against intem- 
perance, and seeing a man wince badly, he bore on 
the harder, expecting the bird to fly. But no ; the 
tippler remained, and even invited the preacher to his 
home. While there, the old tippler said, with an 
oath, "that he was not afraid of a minister, and 
would drink as he pleased." Then going to his 
side-board, took his bottle, drank defiantly four 
glasses of liquor, and fell down dead. What a 
suicide ! 

A wicked, dissipated man, being dragged by the 
hair of his head at the hands of his prodigal and 
cruel son, exclaimed, "Stop, son ! 'Tis as far as I 
dragged my father ! " 



248 PEARLS OF WORLDS, 

Intemperance cries havoc ! and lets slip the cruel 
blood-dogs of war. Are you bitten ? 

John B. Gough says " an eagle catching a snake 
rose up shouting high in the air, like man with his 
bottle, then fell gradually, well-nigh, or quite, dead." 
Oh, cut off the snake's head — the drink ! 

Thomas Patne, the infidel, drunkard, and repro- 
bate, sickened and died in despair and infamy, 
smitten of God, deserted by his friends, despised by 
wise men and Christians ; and his bones are lost. 

What a mighty galaxy of clergymen, statesmen, 
physicians, merchants, judges, gentlemen, and 
ladies have fallen victims to intemperance ! Let us 
keep clear of blood. 

A reformed man had a jug with its bottom out 
hung on a sled-stake as an emblem to remind him 
of his past and his pledge. 

Drunkenness suggests a house without windows, 
gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns 
without roofs, children without clothing, principles, 
schooling, morals, or manners. 

Cufs, vice, and error to youth, are like vultures 
hatched among young lambs. 

Trying to reform by degrees is costly, cruel, and 
absurd as a boy cutting off his dog's tail gradually, 
sympathizing falsely for his dog. The awful daily 



DRINKING ITEMS. 



249 



cries of the dog were heard by the boy's father, who 
questioned him sharply. The boy replied, " that he 
was doing the job early and easily, day by day, be- 
hind the barn, by degrees, inch by inch, joint by 
joint, till the dog's tail should be short enough ; and 
so as not to hurt poor Trim so bad." Now, will 
you, can you crucify the old man, lust or appetite or 
habit, in this way? 

Rev. Mr. Hunt, the temperance lecturer, read a 
note at a camp-meeting in Pennsylvania from a rum- 
seller, who offered them twenty dollars if the meet- 
ings were held close by his hotel. Said Brother 
Hunt, " That rumseller's soul is small enough to be 
put into the bill of a hum-bird and blown into a 
mosquito's eye and not make it kick." Oh, how he 
is to be pitied ! 

Alcohol, chloral, absinthe, opium, tobacco, and 
cognate poisons, stimulate body and mind, produc- 
ing disease, idiocy, fits, weakness, insanity, and 
sudden deaths. 

A promising youth and friend in New Hampshire 
fell to drinking, got the mania a -potu, ran away in a 
fit, as he had done before, and now plunged into a 
river to get rid of his fiery legion of besetting, tor- 
menting devils ; but was found there drowned, 
naked, dead. He was a fine boy; but his "father" 
drank. 



250 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Reforming by degrees is like the " frog in the 
well " — jumping up each time two feet, and three 
down, till sunk in despair. O drinker, get a gal- 
vanic battery ! 

A drinking youth got behind a minister at prayer, 
knelt, turned his back, and tried to cut off his coat- 
tail ; but, by mistake, cut off his own, and hid it in 
his bosom. On meeting his prodigal comrades to 
receive the "pending bet and drink of grog," on 
pulling out the " piece of coat-tail," he saw his sad 
mistake, and felt mortified under the lasting ridicule 
of his companions. 

A drunkard is like a silly sheep, licking the knife 
that takes its heart's blood. So he goes on drinking 
the cup for the day of " soul-slaughter." 

A drunkard pleading that "it is not best to quit 
his cups all at once," fell into a well. His wife, by 
a rope, pulling him up a little and letting him down, 
reminded him of his plea of reforming by degrees, 
and not at once, till he exclaimed, " Oh, I'll sign the 
pledge. Lift me up ! I'll quit drinking at once." 
And did so. 

The grand jury of New York says " intemperance 
is the great burden of vice, crime, and taxation; 
and is from the traffic and use of liquors." 



DRINKING ITEMS. 25 1 

WHY THE MAINE LAW IS WANTED. 

Among the very many arguments in favor of the 
passage of a law prohibiting all traffic in spirituous 
liquors, which we have heard in various quarters, 
the following strike us as unanswerable. The sale 
of intoxicating drinks is not only entirely unneces- 
sary, but is attended with the following evils : 

1. The loss of thousands of lives annually — the 
victims brought to the grave by drink, and diseases 
aggravated by intemperate habits. 

2. Thousands of widows and orphans cast upon 
the charity of the world every year, their property 
first squandered by the husband and father in liquor. 

3. Our courts taken up with the trials of crimes 
brought about directly and indirectly by drunken- 
ness, and our prisons filled with the criminals, made 
such by the sellers of intoxicating drinks. 

4. Our poor-houses crowded with paupers, old 
and young, brought there by their own intemper- 
ance, or by that of their parents. 

5. Poverty and destitution in every direction; the 
money which should go to support the wife and chil- 
dren going into the drawer of the liquor-seller, and 
the sober portion of the community being forced to 
raise money to buy food and fuel for those made des- 
titute by the intemperance of husbands and fathers. 

6. Great scarcity of money, the poor having none 



252 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

to purchase the necessaries of life, and the business 
of mechanics and storekeepers dull, while the keep- 
ers of tippling-shops are living in idleness and 
growing rich on their money. 

7. The "Maine Law" of prohibition saves the 
State two millions of money, and two millions more 
of time and expense, making some four millions 
annually. 

For these and many other evils the only effectual 
remedy is to stop the entire business. Let those 
who are engaged in it find some other employment 
less injurious to the public. Good taverns will still 
be wanted, and will do well. Rum-holes will be 
broken up. The law works well in Maine, and will 
work well here. 

A distiller, rumseller, and gambler in New 
Hampshire was convicted, " stood up for prayers," 
and then returned to his store to mix grog for his 
swearing patrons, but was soon discarded by Chris- 
tians, left fretting to his cups and a miserable death. 

Liquor, vice, and flattery are most potent as a 
trio of destructive enemies. 

A drinking father gave a sheep to each of his 
sons for taking the temperance pledge, when the 
youngest boy exclaimed, "Father, hadn't you better 
take a sheep, too?" 



DRINKING ITEMS. 253 

John Randolph) an opium-eater, confessed his 
sinful pleasure of " wine and women " with remorse 
and ruin of his soul, on his death-bed. 

Dr. Howe, chairman of a committee of the legis- 
lature of Massachusetts, reports as follows on 
Idiocy : "Intemperance is the cause of vices, scrof- 
ula, in idiots themselves and by ancestors afflicted 
and disposed to insanity and idiocy, directly or 
indirectly. Also, how idiocy is produced : — 

"1. By intemperance, fifteen-twentieths. 2. Inter- 
marriages of kin, one-twentieth. 3. Hereditary dis- 
eases, one-twentieth. 4. Venereal excesses, one- 
twentieth. 5. Poverty and hunger, one-twentieth. 
6. Ignorance, one-twentieth." Here are costly, 
carefully gleaned, verified facts. 

The JV. T. Ledger says, " One-fourth of the emi- 
grants in that city die the first year, or soon after, 
of intemperance." 

Dr. Blanchard, of New York, says, " Intemper- 
ance costs the United States yearly $3,000,000,000. 
About a hundred thousand drunkards die annually." 

Statistics say " the liquor drank yearly in the 
United States would fill a canal four feet deep by 
fifteen feet wide, and one hundred and fifty miles 
long." 



254 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

y. B. Gough says " there are six hundred thou- 
sand drunkards in the United States*" 

A doctor in New York says, "Drink causes eighty- 
five per cent, of the poverty and crime." — Yes, and 
I ask, how many feuds and divorces? 

y. B. Gough says, "In England, the converts to 
drunkenness are as one thousand to one for Christ." 

Also, says Rev. S. Davis, "Thirty-three thousand 
are excluded annually from Protestant churches in 
England for drunkenness. Six males die drunk to 
one who dies sober." 

In England, J. B. Gough says, "three-fourths of 
the lunacy is of strong drink." 

Our insurance statistics say, " Of 357 drunkards, 
only one hundred die sober ; the others die drunk- 
ards or suicides." 

Awful items ! Oh, brethren, let us work and 
pray, and clear our hands and skirts of the " blood 
of all men ! " 




CHAPTER XXII.. 

ANALOGIES. 

He taught them many things by parables." — Mark iv. 2. 

jRUE Christians are like flowers, ever open 
to the dew-drops and the sunshine ; full 
of sweet odors. 

Wise Christians are like the bird-of-paradise, 
rising above the clouds till storms are over. 

Hypocrites in our churches are like jackdaws and 
hawks among the doves. 

Intoxication from liquors, opium, tobacco, chloral, 
or absinthe is like a Chinese heaven by smoking 
opium : the absence of all feeling. 

Difficulties among Christians, like ripples of the 
sea, are all on the surface. Deep down in the heart 
all is peace. 

Christians, like Noah and his ark, rise higher as 
waters or troubles grow deeper. 

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256 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Distressed penitents, like Bunyan in jail, pull the 
bell-ropes of heaven by faith, in prayer ; while 
saints shout victory over all enemies ! 

Misfortunes, like vultures, oft come in flocks. 

Thousands by shipwreck lose their lives in sight 
of the shore, as souls in sight of bliss. 

A prisoner was sorely tormented by " detectives " 
eying him through the keyhole by night and day. 
How will sinners feel under God's eternal eye? 

As the old Achilles could be wounded only in his 
unbaptized heel, so we can be hurt only in deprav- 
ity, — by little leaks, "foxes," or bad "flies" — sin. 

Self-righteousness is like a man lifting himself by 
his boots, rolling himself on in his wheelbarrow, 
taking himself up to heaven in a hand-basket, or 
washing in and living long by his blood. 

Hypocrisy, error, vice, or crime pay homage to 
religion, truth, and virtue, like counterfeits to gen- 
uine currency, or imitation to pure gold. 

A boy took up a stone to kill a bobolink, but it 
sang so sweetly he gave it up. So let us sing. 

You might as easily hurl down the stars, sun, and 
moon, and use them as playthings for children, or 
blot out Niagara, as to annihilate the Bible. 



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A pilgrim fixes his eye on God, as a traveler, 
crossing a river, sights a tree on the other side. 

A little girl said her conversion was like this : 
Once she ran into sin, but now from it. 

Frederick Douglass said that " while a slave, he 
often prayed for liberty, but got no sign of an 
answer till he prayed also with his feet. Then he 
left the dust and slavery behind him." So we must 
pray with heart, mind, body, and money. 

An Indian pilot on Lake Ontario tied a rope 
around his own breast, and the same around the 
traveler's, saying, ?? I'll go forward on the poor ice, 
and if I slip or fall in, you must pull me up ; or if 
you get down, I'll pull you up." So they went over 
safely. Thus love helps and saves us. 

Lorenzo Dow said, " death-bed repentance was 
like burning out a candle in the devil's service, and 
blowing the snuff in Jehovah's face." How Satan 
tries to snuff our candles down and out ! 

Sinners, under law, are like snakes in a circle of 
fire, running, turning, or sinking down in despair, 
stinging themselves to death. 

Christians, on Satan's ground, are like sheep in 
a field to kill briers or thistles, till, alas ! they are 
poor, naked, sick, or nigh starved. 
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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



Good preaching is like a magnet, selecting the 
gold from the dross, and yields manifold. 

A sermon-reader is oft like a young elephant, hav- 
ing left his speech "in his trunk." 

Good preachers, like cannon, make two reports : 
one in discharging and one in executing. 

Sectarians, like the sore-eyed, read the Bible and 
signs with " carnal," colored glasses. 

Antinomians are like broody geese, sitting on 
stones, hissing, but never hatching out any. 

Preaching law is like firing bombshells over 
wrecked vessels with ropes of rescue. ' 

Christians, like trees, the more they are cut or 
bruised the more they root, grow, or bear. 

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost; sin- 
ners eat their own fruit. Sin recoils ; thus the slan- 
derers, like serpents, sting themselves. 

The wicked are like a garden and palace on 
Mount Vesuvius, to be ruined by sudden eruption. 

Man is like a house furnished for use or fancy , 
gems or rermin ; music, wisdom, and joy, or sin and 
misery ; for God or Satan, — as we choose. 

Christians see Christ in them reflected by the 
Bible, as the sun or moon is by water or glass. 



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259 



Sinners are like a sheep, unwilling to follow till 
the shepherd carries off a pet lamb. So Christ takes 
our kin, child, or idol, to save us. 

Fools reject religion, gold, or meat, because of 
mystery, dross, or bone, and so lose all good. 

Worldlings, like foundered horses, stumble, fall, 
or cut themselves as maniacs in the tombs. 

To sport in sin is like playing with rattlesnakes, 
till mortally bitten or done for life. 

Infidels are like the chased ostrich, hiding its head 
in sand, till smitten by the fowler. The fool says, 
"No God sees me ; " but has no cover. 

The good, like the sky-lark, nest low but soar 
high ; or as sheep nurse the lambs while eating. 

Religion, like fast colors, does not fade out by the 
sun, water, times, fashions, or flames. 

Christians, like the fire-flies, are seen on the wing 
all aglow ; or as gold, ever passing where best 
known ; or as wise traders, each are profited; or as 
friends, seeing all sides or colors till agreed. 

True churches act like a family making a fire : 
first a back-log, a fore-stick, small wood, kindling, 
then fanning ; — all is attended to, and each helps. 

Infidels, like owls, see best in the dark. 

False hopes are like leaky ships in a storm ; or, 
as a man's old landmark, down out of sight. 



260 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Sinners are like " Damocles " at a table of dainties 
with a sword hung by a hair over his head ; or a 
glutton digging a grave with his teeth. 

Infidels are like a mouse trying to uproot the oak ; 
or a goat fighting himself in a mirror. 

Envy, like an evil beast, leaves all good to de- 
stroy others ; is hungry, malignant, suicidal. 

Some Christians, like old coins, need the fire to 
show the image, worth, beauty, or use; or, as 
sheep need washing to show the mark or kin ; or 
like a block of marble, need working out in the stu- 
dio, a school, or furnace, to show life. 

Sinners, like the boatman catching wood, get too 
near the falls, go over, and are lost. 

A negro said, " he was in Christ and the Spirit 
like a poker in the fire and fire in the poker." 

Unbelievers and bigots are like a fly on one side 
of a palace, not seeing in or around. What poor 
judges of God, Bible, or the church ! 

The Indian carries his canoe over hills or dales, 
and it in turn carries him over the waters ; so relig- 
ion we carry, and it carries us. 

Wise men, like bees, get food and give; while 
fools fail, and find fault, like the "ten spies." 

Christ, the Bible, salvation, and grace, are free 
for us as the sun, air, water, or provisions. 



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The Gospel is like a true fog-bell to the lost. 

False preachers or Christians are like decoy-ducks, 
rotten wood, or glow-worms at night. 

Persecutions, eggs, turfs, stones, jails, fines, or 
whips, are food and tonics to the good. 

Hypocrites, like the nautilus sailing on a calm sea 
in flocks, reef sail or sink at storms. 

Thoughts lost in words, ideas drowned in rhetoric, 
sentiments frozen in logic, are like the preacher's 
ghastly skeletons, as he holds in his cold or bony 
fingers a burning lamp. Oh, look in the mirror and 
be wise ! 

The works of infidels are like fortifications of egg- 
shells before a seventy-four-pounder, soon swept as 
the Bible rakes them. 

Precocious talkers are like big toes — low parts 
of the body, yet ever thrust foremost. 

Civilities often, like air-cushions — all hollow — 
soften our jolts most wonderfully. 

Christians, like tide-mills, grind both ways. 

Young Christians, like Peter's fish, are apt to give 
silver by the hand if not by mouth. 

The Gospel, like mustard-seed, is a power. 

The wicked, like German prisoners pumping, 
work hard to keep their heads above water — to live. 



262 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Christian sails, like flags on staffs, are not well 
filled or seen without work or wind. 

Christians sparkle in Christ's smiles like gems and 
pearls, or dew-drops in the sun. 

As the watch-clock watches the night-watchman, 
so God watches ministers and stewards. 

Observe and read, to fill up ; think and reason, to 
digest ; will and act, to profit. So mind God. 

True eloquence, like volcanic showers from hearts 
of love exploded, is pentecost-fire. 

The sun — light, heat, and fire ; or our body, 
being, and life, either three in one, present but a 
faint likeness to the divine Trinity. 

A stone-cutter told a minister that " hearts might 
be as easily moulded as statuary, if the minister 
worked more as he did — on his knees." 

He who walks with wise men will be like them ; 
as readers are like the books they read. 

A false hope is like a leaky ship, — easy in a 
calm sea, but bilged or sunk in the stormy deep. 

The faithful Christian, like the sun, shines, warms, 
blazes, and onward goes in his own course, not stop- 
ping for wars, fights, darkness, or cold bodies, but 
is "upward, onward." 



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A sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of 
comfort; but a sense of religious fitness for the 
"wedding supper" is infinitely more so. 

A stingy soul is like a worm gnawing into a nut- 
shell, and crawling out at a maggot-hole, with rooms 
to let. How can such grow in grace? 

As farmers wish to know beforehand the worth or 
weight of their products, or their prospects at mar- 
ket, so let us, going to God's bar. 

A soldier boy, crippled and complaining, his kind 
mother cheered him, reminding him of his patriot- 
ism and courage in the victorious battle, and that 
his pains should excite his gratitude, as mementos 
of his valor in war, for life. How then should we, 
like Paul, glory in the cross ! 

As the Great Western was returning from Eng- 
land in an equinoctial gale, sinners, like Christians, 
in consternation, knelt down and prayed for mercy, 
as if none but God could save. 

Birds, freed from the aviary, in a great fire flew 
out, round and back, and into the fire. So sinners 
freely fly into sin, and hell. 

Columbian College, at Washington, D. C, was 
found in due time to stand on quicksand ; so by 
wisdom was saved, like converts, from destruction. 



264 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A snowball on the Alps accumulates as it rolls 
down, and lays waste all before it, like sin and 
error dashing sinners down to the pit. 

Vicious company, or books, like fire coals, blacken 
you, if they do not burn or destroy. 

Some Christians, like old trees, are more useful 
when cut down, leaving a rich legacy to us. 

Faith to the soul is like sunlight to the eye ; and 
the graces like colors of the rainbow. 

I am hid with Christ in God, as the New Testa- 
ment is in the Bible ; — a Christian union. 

There is only one standpoint to view a picture ; so 
is the foot of the Cross to view the Truth. 

Two lutes in unison at opposite sides of a room — 
if one is struck, the other responds, saint-like. 

A statue seems perfect to us, but the artist smites 
it over and again ; so God perfects us. 

No man is fit to preach till the impress of God's 
finger and the Cross are burned in his soul. 

As soon as man needs the compass, the press, oil, 
coal, telegraph or telephone, they come forth. So 
Christ appeared, and now saves us. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

MISCELLANY. 
TRUE GIVING. 

|HERE was a man, some called him mad, 
The more he gave away, the more he had." 

ORIGINAL EPITAPH. 

"Ho, ho! who lies here? 
Tis I, the good Earl of Devonshire, 
With Kate, my wife, to me full dear; 
We lived together full fifty-five year. 

What we spent we had ; 

What we left we lost ; 

What we gave we saved." 

SIN REBOUNDS. 

Intemperance, avarice, or revenge, like an old 
gun, kicks harder than it shoots, and kicks twice 
where it shoots once ; and ever kills nine times out 
of ten the cruel, wily " fowler." 

CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH. 

"Come, death, shake hands ; I kiss thy hands ; 
'Tis happiness for me to die, 

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266 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

And leave the world for joys on high, 
To shout with saints above the sky." 

CONJUGAL. 

"This world's lone wilderness 
A garden wild ; 
And man a hermit wanders, 
Till woman smiled." 

PURE WOMAN'S GIFTS. 

Says Dr. Bixby : " They have more influence in 

the church, and on the heathen, than the men ever 

exert." So they are effective, individually, as 

" seven men and a half," as A. Clark said, " in every 

benevolent or religious cause," — in all true reforma- 
tions. 

TRUE COURAGE. 

Brave is he who conquers a lion ; 
Brave is he who conquers an army ; 
Braver is he who conquers man himself; 
Bravest is he who conquers death itself. 

A TRUE HOPE. 

Straight is the line of duty ; 
Curved is the line of beauty ; 
By the first you'll walk, and see 
The other life's crown for thee. 

GOOD SUMMER DRINK. 

A little sugar, to make it sweet ; 
A little lemon, to make it sour ; 



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A little water to make it weak ; 
A little prayer to make it drink. 

THE CLEAR OUTLOOK. 

So goes the world, a rush, alas ! 
Lo, greatest rogues escape, en masse, 
While lesser ones are often caught, 
But they to judgment will be brought. 

OUR EVENING LESSON. 

Well done ! Be easy, friend, all night ; 
Talk, sing, and pray ; take supper light ; 
Mind nature's God, or you'll complain 
Of mind and heart or stomach pain. 
Be to others' faults a little blind, 
But to every virtue be all kind. 

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; 
The eternal years of God are hers, 
But error, wounded, writhes in pain, 
And dies amid vain worshipers. 

SPECIAL LESSONS. 

Let worldlings read Ecclesiastes ; the pious, 
Psalms ; the afflicted, Job ; preachers, Timothy and 
Titus ; backsliders, Habakkuk and Hebrews ; liber- 
tines, Peter, James, and Jude ; students, Esther and 
Proverbs ; busy men, Nehemiah ; retired gentlemen, 
Solomon, yea, all the books, often, prayerfully, and 
practically. Here are Bible varieties, motives, and 



268 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

helps to godliness, and rebukes of sin and vanities 
of the world. 

A BIT OF BAPTIST HISTORY. 

Dr. Backus says : " The first Baptist ministers 
preaching in New York were imprisoned, and fed 
on bread and water; and the first converts were 
baptized in the night, for fear of the civil (?) au- 
thorities. So Baptists were persecuted in old Mas- 
sachusetts, and Roger Williams was driven out, in 
mid-winter, to Providence, R. I. Nay, even old 
Virginia cruelly persecuted Baptists." But, by 
grace, what great and gracious changes now fa- 
vor us ! 

LIGHT AND SHADE. 

There is no sweet sunshine 
That has not its kind shade ; 

Nor shadow or moonshine 
The sun has not well made. 

O Christ, maker, divine ! 

THE BAPTISMAL SYMBOL. 

Christ's and the Christian's institution ! It shows 
our sense of sin, desire of purity, and' trust of regen- 
eration ; and that Christ has died and risen for us, 
and is able, and will cleanse us from all sin, as 
truly as we believers die and rise figuratively with 
him in baptism. Glorious symbol of the resurrection ! 



MISCELLANY. 269 



The "Lord's Supper" truly shows Christ's death, 
and our hope, in commemorating it till "he come.'* 
This is a pure " remembrancer and sign " ; while 
baptism is the sign of Christ's death and ours, and 
of our burial and resurrection. 

"Well," said an old converted soldier, "this is the 
old flag — our creed sign — bury me in it." Amen. 

Wonderful. Rev. William Tennant, of Free- 
hold, N. J., says, "The three days I appeared life- 
less seemed but ten or twenty minutes. I saw happy 
beings, and wished to join them. To come back to 
earth shocked me ; I groaned and swooned repeat- 
edly." He arose and recovered, preached much, 
and was blessed. Oh how fast saints live in heaven, 
if three days seem only ten or twenty minutes ! 

Warfare. Said Martin Luther, "If I can get 
God into my fights, I am safe ; God is glorified, and 
all is well." So I often feel and pray, and as Christ 
has given me victory hitherto, I yet hope on. 

INFANT BAPTISM NOT OF CHRIST. 

The tendencies are as follows: 

1. To destroy a Christian principle. 

2. Destroy Christ's ordinance as a fraud. 

3. Destroy the doctrine of revelation. 

4. Destroy the church and sinners. 

5. Give authority to traditions ; errors. 



270 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

6. Mix the church and state as one body. 

7. Examples: Germany and the Papal States. 

8. Mark its origin, workings, natural results, or 

Unitarian heresies, growing in churches, and 
all over Christendom ! 

NEW TESTAMENT MARTYRS. 

John the Baptist was beheaded in prison. 

Jesus Christ was reproached, scourged, crucified. 

Stephen was stoned to death. 

Peter and Paul were slain by Nero. 

James, brother of John, was slain by Herod. 

Matthew was nailed to the ground in India. 

Bartholomew was flayed alive. 

Andrew was crucified. 

Thomas was pierced with spears. 

Philip was nailed to the cross and stoned to death. 

Simon Zelotes was scourged and crucified. 

James, son of Alpheus, was thrown from the tem- 
ple at Jerusalem and beaten with staves. 

Judas Thaddeus was murdered by heathen priests 
in Persia. 

Matthias was crowned with martyrdom. 

Evangelist Mark was dragged about Alexandria 
by a cord to his neck till dead. 

John the Apostle was banished to the Isle of Patmos. 

Pollycarp, a disciple of John, was burned alive at 
Smyrna. 



MISCELLANY. 27 1 



Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was torn in pieces by 
wild beasts ; so were many Christian men and wo- 
men. Roman pastors (bishops), for the first three 
hundred years, were nearly all martyred, and all 
Christians persecuted. 

THE BAPTIST CODICIL. 

Rev. Howard Malcom, D.D., assured me "that 
ninety-five per cent, of the ' martyrs ' in the dark 
ages were Baptists, or Baptist in principle." Po- 
pery confronts and persecutes us. 

Rev. John Bunyan, of England, was imprisoned 
for preaching our sentiments ; but dreamed well for 
us all the time. 

Rev. J. Oncken of Denmark, and Lehmann of 
Berlin, were severely persecuted and imprisoned in 
Germany for gospel preaching, order, and practice, 
and not submitting to Popery. We have our legacy, 
and " Eternal Life." 

PERT SAYINGS. 

One, with convictions and God, is a majority. 
The motto is : The pulpit, press, vote, code, acts ! 
There is no royal road to knowledge but ours. 
One says, " Speak for God, if hell boils or roars." 
Prayerless men are not on speaking terms with 
God, nor dressed for his supper — no love ! 

There is nothing so successful as success. So 



272 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

God, with a good conscience, is a friend, a refuge, 
a paradise — our crown of glory ! 

Philosophic : To mind one's own true business. 

FREEMASONRY NOT OF THE SPIRIT. 

1. It is of the -world, and not of Christ's love. 

2. Self-interest is first \ next, " fraternity." 

3. It is a decoy church, and "craft " promotes it. 

4. Many Christians are beguiled or hurt by it. 

5. On dit : "The uninitiated know nothing of it." 

6. So we are wittily asked to " go in," thus blind. 

7. Lodges refuse the poorest, needy, cripples. 

8. They shun, or minify, Christ and orthodoxy. 

9. Deist, Turk, Jew, heretic, and nullist, unite. 

10. " Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers." 

11. Mason's "fellowship secret works — darkness." 

12. Time, money, religion, souls, are lost by it. 

13. It is no " Lodge " for a true, living Christian. 

14. God forbids the union, motives, and fruits. 

15. " Secret societies " are wrong, and hurt " Zion." 

16. God ordains and fits a church for his work. 

17. Christ is soul, center, circle, of all good. 

18. O Christians ! "come out, and be ye separate !" 

19. It is evil in religion, law, politics, or trade. 

20. Lo, its origin, work, in life, war, law, or death ! 

21. A mason or seceder, telling all he can, is more 

credible when " free " than under dark oaths. 



MISCELLANY. 273 



SAVING THE WORLD. 

John iii. 17. 

1. Let a Christian try to win one, or more, souls. 

2. Fix on one, or a point, at a time, and keep on. 

3. Use truth and wise means ; sow by faith in God. 

4. Work in love, Spirit, earnest, and humility. 

5. Mind and trust God; convict, convert, and train. 

6. Begin at home; pray, look, hope, till crowned. 

GOOD SUGGESTIONS. 

Entertain no book or companion unworthy of imi- 
tation, as a model in life-work. 

A good soul : " A face bright with rainbows." 

Dr. Tyng said, " I am often so insensible, I pound 
and pinch my limbs to see if I am myself" — alive. 
So God often, in mercy, wakes up a dull church. 

Persons usually pass at their own act-rating. 

Diligent activity is the price of success. 

To dive at the world is man's business, if God 
bids him ; to go through is God's. Obey God ! 

Dr. Franklin, grinding the axe, was flattered and 
then scolded, to make him work gratis. So Satan 
often beguiles sinners to hell ! 

Said a Christian, " I think a preparation to meet 
my God is the best lightning-rod." So a good Dutch- 
man disliked one on the church. 

Passion is a strong power, ruled by reason. 
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274 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



THE FOUR PILLARS OF BELIEF. 

I. Miracles. 2. Prophecies. 3. Goodness of the 
doctrine. 4. Moral character of the penmen, and 
general effect of Christianity. 

Men degenerate without their peers ; but it is 
heroic courage to rise above the world around you. 

Sir Isaac Newton said, near the close of his life, 
" I feel like a boy playing with sand on the sea- 
shore. I have just begun to learn." Do you know 
Jesus? Have you learned of Christ? Have you a 
soul-assurance? 

The missionaries in Orissa labored fifteen years, 
in Greenland fifteen, in Tahiti sixteen, in New 
Zealand sixteen, before a single soul was con- 
verted. 

Dr. Sharp, of Charles Street, Boston, Mass., set 
up the first Baptist Sunday-school ; and Rev. Wm, 
Howe the first mission-school. 

Sexes. "Boys and girls, schooled together, improve 
girls morally and boys mentally ; and both alike, 
generally," says an experienced teacher ; " but a re- 
cluse can't resist so well, and falls sooner than the 
social." 

"Why preach so long?" "I had not time to be 
short." 



MISCELLANY. 



275 



"Never hold a controversy with ministers," on 
dit, " for they have the pulpit ; nor with editors, for 
they have the press; nor with women, for they will 
have the last word." 

Real beauty, unadorned, is most adorned ; and a 
smile is not a smirk,' but a rainbow, a sunbeam, a 
bright spiritual variety — goodness, tenderness, 
sweetness. 

A -pointless sermon is like a letter deposited in the 
post-office without a direction. 

£>ueen Victoria's crown is valued at one million 
dollars, and weighs nineteen ounces. But the 
crown Jesus gives is invaluable ! 

Scientific men should be very pious, as knowledge 
is power for evil or good. 

An Indian, refusing baptism from a bowl, said " he 
must have another Bible first." Some rivers, like 
great men, form their own channels. 

Sick-bed repentance. Only one or two in a thou- 
sand are said to be valid, by good judges of facts. 

That is a short fight, when but one strikes. So 
nothing is a trifle that offends, nor insignificant that 
pleases, my friend or Lord. 

ministers' sons and daughters. 
The salaries of the clergy of the United States do 
not average five hundred dollars a year, and yet, as 



276 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

a class, they are the best educated, the most influ- 
ential, the most active, refined, and elevated of the 
nation. With less culture, with less character, with 
less mental power, there are men all over the land 
who earn from one to twenty-five thousand dollars a 
year. But look at the results. Taking them as 
they come, the biographies of a hundred clergymen 
who have families show that, of their sons, one hun- 
dred and ten became ministers ; and of the remain- 
der of the sons, by far the larger number rose to 
eminence as professional men, merchants, and 
scholars. 

As to the daughters, their names are merged into 
others ; but there is a significant fact, which we do 
not remember to have seen noticed in that connec- 
tion, that not only here, but in England, where 
titles are so highly prized, and the possession of 
" gentle blood " is a passport to high places, it is 
very often referred to as a matter of note, as indi- 
cating safety and respectability — " His mother was 
a daughter of a clergyman." We will venture the 
opinion that three-fourths of the great men of this 
nation are not over two degrees removed from cler- 
gymen's families, or from families strictly religious. 
When it can be said of a man or woman that the 
father or grandfather was a clergyman, there is a 
feeling within us of a certain elevation of character, 
a kind of guaranty of respectability of blood, of 
purity, and integrity. 



MISCELLANY. 277 



We need not ask if the history of any other hun- 
dred families, taken as they come, of renowned gen- 
erals, of great statesmen, of successful merchants, 
of splendid orators, or eminent physicians and law- 
yers, can give another hundred and ten sons to oc- 
cupy positions as respectable as their own. Never; 
nor is there any approach to it. 

CHOICE OF COLORS IN DRESS. 

But let us be more choice and careful in our re- 
ligious dress ; and then how beautiful ! 

Some of the canons, as laid down in an English 
poem of the last century, are worth quoting, as well 
for the good sense of the dogmas as for the quaint- 
ness of the verses. To brunettes he recommends 
high colors, "rose," "orange," or even "scarlet," 
thus : 

" The lass whose skin is, like the hazel, brown, 
With brighter colors should o'ercome her own." 

To rosy-cheeked girls he permits "blue" and "the 
color of the sea " : 

" Let the fair nymph, in whose plump cheek is seen 
A rosy blush, be clad in cheerful green." 

Cautioning pale women against vernal hues, he 

continues : 

" Ladies grown pale with sickness or despair, 
The sable's mournful dye should choose to wear ; 
So the pale moon still shines with purest light, 
Clad in the dusky mantle of the night." 



278 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



REMINISCENCES. 

Rev. y. Belcher, D.D., of England, often com- 
plained in Philadelphia, Pa., of the inattention to 
age from young ministers in America, saying " it 
was not so in London or Europe, where great defer- 
ence is paid to age and the sage." I then knew 
these were facts ; but thought, if I should become 
old, I would not find fault with youth and inexpe- 
rience or young America, lest then, by so doing, I 
might show as sad ignorance, manners, or de- 
ficiency as they. My views are so now at seventy- 
four. 

MANY CURIOUS FACTS — A LESSON. 

" Bees are geometricians. The cells are so con- 
structed as, with the least quantity of material, to 
have the largest sized spaces and the least possible 
interstice. The mole is a meteorologist. The bird 
called the nine-killer is an arithmetician ; also the 
crow, the wild-turkey, and some other birds. The 
torpedo, the ray, and the electric eel are electricians. 
The nautilus is a navigator : he raises and lowers 
his sails, casts and weighs anchor, and performs 
nautical feats. Whole tribes of birds are musicians. 
The beaver is an architect, builder, and woodcutter : 
he cuts down trees, and erects houses and dams. 
The marmot is a civil engineer : he does not only 



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279 



build houses, but constructs aqueducts and drains 
to keep them dry. The ant maintains a regular 
standing army. Wasps are paper manufacturers. 
Caterpillars are silk-spinners. The squirrel is a 
ferryman : with a chip or a piece of bark for a boat, 
and his tail for a sail, he crosses a stream. Dogs, 
wolves, jackals, and many others, are hunters. The 
black bear and heron are fishermen. The ants are 
day-laborers. The monkey is a rope-dancer." 
Why may we not imitate Christ and heaven as well, 
and better? 

INSTRUCTIVE FACTS. 

A Paris broker bought for a trifle a picture called 
" The Virgin Mary ; " but washing it, scales came 
off till it proved to be a masterpiece likeness of the 
Lord Jesus Christ — very precious ! 

The birthplace of John the Baptist is Ain Kai- 
Rim, south-west of the city of Jerusalem. 

True modesty is a discerning grace, 

And only blushes at the right time and place. 

A sculptor, on finishing his statue, saw no defect, 
and wept at the sign of failing powers. 

Dr. Ray, of the Asylum for the Insane, Provi- 
dence, R. I., says, "Novel-reading is a great cause 
of insanity : it weakens, perverts, and makes vic- 
tims selfish." 



280 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

The Lord's Prayer can be written twenty-two 
times in a square inch by the use of a microscope. 

False reformers would banish the sun from the 
house or world, and light it with their gas. 

Dr. Payson said, "If your people feel that you 
love them, they wall hear and bear anything their 
pastors say." Love is almighty. 

SOURCES OF HAPPINESS. 

i. Moderate gratification of the senses. 2. Mod- 
eration in our views, aspirations, and exactions. 

3. Right motives, and exercise of all our faculties 
in laudable, benevolent, earnest work. 4. Good 
thoughts, desires, resolves, action, and habits, under 
due control. 5. Health, mental, moral, spiritual, 
and physical. 6. Ever looking at things on the 
right and bright side. 7. Right exercise of all the 
social powers and due degrees. 

Cicero says, " Roscius could express a sentence 
in as many different ways by his gestures, as I can 
by my words." — When words and actions are 
united, how powerful ! And if combined with true 
religion, how glorious ! 

GOVERNMENTS. 

1. The world. 2. International. 3. National. 

4. State. 5. Municipal or city. 6. Social. 7. Do- 
mestic. 8. Individual. 9. The government of the 
universe. 



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Items. — The largest Pyramid (the Cheops) of 
Egypt is -693 feet square at the base, and 599 feet 
high, tapering gradually, with a shaft looking to 
the north-star. There are thirty-three others. 

Gethsemane is eight by ten rods square, walled 
seven feet high, with eight olive trees within the 
garden. 

" Sit-down, Mr. Washington; your modesty is 
equal to your valor, and that surpasses the power 
of any language that I possess," said the speaker. 
How sublime ! — But " Young America " is not much 
troubled with modesty or reverence for wisdom, age, 
etiquette, or superiority — now. Let us pray, work, 
hope, and look for the millennium. Amen ! 

CHURCH MANNERS. 

1. Let minister, members, and all, be on time. 
You have no right to hinder or disturb the preacher, 
the congregation, or service, by being tardy. Let 
each set the example. And let us have good air, 
light, heat, water, and " comfort." 

2. Let no hearer look round or back, when the 
door opens, to see who comes in. It is discourteous 
to the preacher, diverts your mind and others from 
the exercises of gospel worship. Let not the pastor 
or officers get irritated, nor speak roughly, and 
make matters worse or reactive. 



282 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

3. Never talk Or whisper in church, especially 
after the service has begun ; nor pull out your watch 
every few minutes, for the time, during the sermon, 
as if hoping for the close. 

4. Never rest your head on the pew-rail, as though 
indifferent to the preaching, or very sick. Nor ex- 
amine your person or wardrobe. Of course, no gen- 
tleman uses the " weed " in church. 

5. Never get angry at truth well spoken, nor 
show disrespect to what is said, or to the audience, 
by looks, sounds, signs, or hastily going out, or 
talking loudly in the aisle or vestibule. 

6. Conform, if you can in conscience, to the 
usages of the church where you worship. Sit, stand, 
kneel, or bow, freely and devoutly. 

7. Do not look or fidget, as if weary of the service ; 
but be quiet and prayerful till the end. Do not 
get your hat or trappings ready till after the bene- 
diction. Retire meditating. 

8. Let the pastor, deacons, ushers, sexton, all be 
polite, attentive, and mutually cordial to each other ; 
and especially to every stranger, making all feel at 
home and heartily welcome. 

9. Do not sponge your preaching or blessings; 
but w bring in all the tithes," a full " freewill offering " 
for God, as a Christian duty and privilege, and he 
will bless you abundantly. Amen. 



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MORE HINTS ON PREACHING. 

"George Whitefield" says Lord Macaulay, " had 
two key-notes, and forty thousand within their vari- 
ations : 1st. Man is guilty, and may obtain forgive- 
ness. 2d. He is immortal, and must ripen for weal 
or woe." 

An elocutionist so read the Lord's Prayer as to 
affect all present to tears. His eyes were up ; his 
face blanched ; his voice subdued, and tremulous, 
and varied. 

There is language and eloquence in words, voice, 
breath, eyes, cheeks, spirit, looks, action; yea, 
every joint, motion, hand and foot, or position. 

Elder Sfocer says " reading from the pulpit im- 
plies that the man or sermon is superannuated." 

Mrs. Van Cott on Preaching. — At the close of 
the sermon she spoke of the scorn and contempt 
which she had received since she began to preach. 
She could stand it all. She was proud of her sex. 
A woman was the last at the cross, and the first at 
the tomb, of the Savior. It was a woman who was 
honored with the privilege of washing the Savior's 
feet and wiping them with her hair — and Christ 
did not say that she was out of her place. The first 
messenger of the resurrection was a woman. There 
is only one way of salvation, and how can women 
go to heaven ; how can men go there, without fol- 



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lowing the commands laid down in the Holy Book? 
We are told, too, that in the better world " there will 
be neither male nor female." We shall all be saints 
of God. If a man, by exercising his talents and the 
strength that God has given him, can bring souls 
from darkness into the light, why should not the 
woman strive to increase the army of the Lord by 
engaging in the same labor when she feels she has 
been called to do it? Would it not be sinful in her to 
refuse ? 

Whitefield preached some two hundred times on 
the new birth; Dr. Olin, five hundred, from the 
same text; and the "author," seven hundred times. 

Robert Hall, failing on his first trial to preach, 
said, "All my ideas have left me ; " and at the next, 
"If this don't humble me, the devil will have me." 

Dr. Chalmers once preached five hours without 
tiring himself or his audience. 

" Eloquent was he," said one ; " great, grand, 
glorious ! Nothing wanting ! Not a word too 
much!" So let us use the sword, harpoon, food, 
and the balm. And may God give success, and 
crown us above ! 

Dr. Warren says "extempore speaking differs 
from reading in affecting the throat, as much as 
walking at liberty from trying to walk in the steps 
of others." 



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We are never eloquent and great but when we 
are speaking easily, simply, naturally, earnestly, 
pointedly. Cecil says " to be mightily earnest is 
eloquence." 

The fulfit wants conviction, sympathy, action, 
earnestness, and adaptation ; the power to keep atten- 
tion and curiosity alive, expecting something good 
coming. Let preachers open the "alabaster-box" 
and fill the house. Let eye, cheek, acts, hand, and 
foot add to it. 

LOGIC DIVIDES A SUBJECT, AFTER THE TEXT. 

1. What I do not mean, or what it is not. 

2. What I do mean, and what it is. 

3. Argument, examples, or proof. 

4. Refute objections and correct errors. 

5. Lay hold of the heart and conscience. 

6. Aim to hit and conquer all classes. 

7. Strike with might, faith, assurance. 

FAREWELL PREACHING. 

Study the Bible, the best rules, authors, and mod- 
els of eloquence ; yea, get full of the Spirit and 
matter, and speak out. 

Look to the grand doctrines, precepts, and ex- 
amples, up to heaven, down to hell, over the world 
of immortal souls, and onward to eternity — muse 
and pray over the scene till you feel your responsi- 



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bility to God and the worth of souls enough to fire 
up all your preaching powers, by the Holy Spirit, 
to overwhelm your audience for Christ and heaven. 
And God grant you a Starry Crown ! 



OLD SHIP ZION. — {Bonnie Boon.) 

Ahoy ! Ship Zion 's Canaan-bound ! — 
Christ's name, red Cross, free pass, resound ! 
'Midst raging storms and woful cries, — 
God saves us, cargo, crew, and prize ! 

Christ speaks, and calms the fearful waves. 
Make sail, all-prayer; ply life-boat oars ! 
Friends, board the Ark; yea, stem the flood; 
Greet pilgrims, washed in Jesus' blood? 

Lo ! Bible chart, glass, compass, sight, — 
Star, trumpet, log, Church-beacon light ! — 
We Gospel line and plummet throw ; 
Shun rocks, whirlpool, sly pirate-foe. 

Watch signs, sea, sun, moon, pilot-goal. 
Our quadrant's Faith; Truth, magnet-pole. 
Our vessel 's clear ; Hope's anchor, sure. 
Haul cable Love — strong sailors, pure ! 
|| : Come, Holy Spirit, fill our sails, — 
Guide helm, steer ship, insure our souls. 
Be Christ our Captain, Savior, Guest; — 
Hail, Zion's port ! — hail, Christian rest ! :|| 

E. A. 




CHAPTER XXIV. 

STATISTICS. 
MONEY PAID TO PREACHERS. 

jHURCHES pay an average salary, in United 
States, to 16,000 preachers, yearly, at the 
rate of $375 to each, making a sum of $6,000,000. 
If they had faiths it would be good for themselves 
and the world to give ten times more. 

COST OF CRIMINALS. 

The United States pay annually $15,000,000 for 
criminals ; cost to United States, direct and indirect, 
$25,000,000. Only twelve per cent, of them are 
punished. The causes of poverty and crime are 
similar in their origin. 

Lawyers receive some $50,000,000 yearly in 

fees. 

Intoxicants. The United States pay for distilled 
liquors, in cash, $800,000,000 yearly. For distilled 
and fermented liquors, the cost to the United States 
is $1,500,000,000. Direct and indirect cost is 
$3,000,000,000; nay, more, considering all the 
contingencies. 

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288 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Tobacco. The cost, in the United States, yearly, 
for chewing, smoking, snuffing, and knapping, is 
$100,000,000. Indirectly, by the perversion of 
mind, body, time, land, money, and means, $200,- 
000,000 more, making $300,000,000 loss, saying 
nothing of the immorality or sin. 

Opium, foreign and domestic, in all styles, costs 
the United States, in cash, $25,000,000 yearly. 
And many millions more indirectly. 

War. The Rebellion cost the United States 
three-fourths of a million of citizens ; five billions of 
dollars; and trillions of Morality. What a flood 
of vice, crime, error, strife, and demoralization, 
followed ! 

CRUEL WARS. 

Jesus Christ said, " My kingdom is not of this 
world; if it were> my servants would fight." 

I indorse the following from the eminent divine 
Albert Barnes : 

"Who has ever told the evils, and the curses, and 
the crimes of war? Who can describe the horror 
of the carnage of that battle ? Who can portray the 
fiendish passions which reign there? Who can tell 
the amount of treasure wasted, and of the blood 
that has flowed, and of the tears that have been 
shed over the slain ? Who can register the crimes 
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with the heart of a man — of a lover of human hap- 
piness — of a hater of carnage and crime — can 
look but with pity — who can repress his contempt 
in looking on all the trappings of war — the tinsel 
— the nodding plumes — even the animating music, 
designed to cover over the reality of the contem- 
plated murder of fathers, and husbands, and sons?" 

CASUALTIES IN MINES AND ON SEA. 

Mines. Intemperance, in various forms, is the 
great source of the explosions and numerous fatal 
accidents and disasters in coal-pits and in other 
mines. How careless and rash many are ; yea, 
reckless to the last degree ! Saying nothing of the 
effects of ardent spirits there, the use of tobacco is 
not only injurious to health, but is dangerous, crim- 
inal, and destructive. Barely opening the safety- 
lamp, or lighting the pipe, has been the frequent 
cause of the saddest catastrophes in the coal, iron, 
and other mines. Oh, the tobacco-pipe for killing 
the victims and robbing their families ! Destroying 
property, body, and soul, forever ! 

Sea. On the seas, by tobacco and intoxicants, 
the officers and men often, with many honorable ex- 
ceptions, become careless and reckless, or unfit for 
duty. What a large, costly portion of the losses and 
disasters of life and property, directly or even indi- 
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290 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

rectly, may be traced to some intemperance ! War is 
woful, cruel, and wicked — anti-gospel ; but what is 
the fatality of the sword compared with intemper- 
ance! 

editor's rule. 

1st. Write in a legible hand. 2d. Write only on 
one side of the paper. 3d. Be sure you are right, 
and then write. 4th. Make the point early and 
plain. 5th. Be short. 

CAUSES, AND COMPARATIVE AGES. 

But few men die of age. Almost all die of dis- 
appointment, passion, mental, or bodily toil, or 
accident. The passions kill men sometimes, even 
suddenly. The common expression, choked with 
passion, has little exaggeration in it; for even 
though not suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten 
life. Strong-bodied men often die young — weak 
men live longer than the strong, for the strong use 
their strength, and the weak have none to use. The 
latter take care of themselves ; the former do not. 
As it is with the body, so it is with, the mind and 
temper. The strong are apt to break ; or, like the 
candle, to run ; the weak burn out. The inferior 
animals, which live, in general, regular and temper- 
ate lives, have usually their prescribed term of 
years. The horse lives twenty-five years ; the ox 
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ten or twelve ; the rabbit eight ; the guinea-pig six 
or seven years. These numbers all bear a similar 
proportion to the time the animal takes to grow to 
its full size. But man, of all the animals, is the one 
that seldom comes up to his average. He ought to 
live a hundred years, according to this physiological 
law, for five times twenty are one hundred; but in- 
stead of that he scarcely reaches, on the average, 
four times his growing period ; the cat six times ; 
and the rabbit even eight times the standard of 
measurement. The reason is obvious : man is not 
only the most irregular and the most intemperate, 
but the most laborious and hard-worked of all ani- 
mals. He is also the most irritable of all animals ; 
and there is reason to believe, though we cannot tell 
what an animal secretly feels, that more than any 
other animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it warm, 
and consumes himself with the fire of his own secret 
reflections. 

DIVERS VITAL FACTS. 

The whole number of languages spoken in the 
world amount to 3,064; viz., 587 in Europe, 937 in 
Asia, 276 in Africa, and 1,264 in America. The 
inhabitants of our globe profess more than 1,000 dif- 
ferent religions. The number of men is about equal 
to the number of women. The average of human 
life is about 33 years. One-fourth die previous to 
the age of 7 years, one half before reaching 17 



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years, and those who pass that age enjoy a felicity 
(?) refused to one-half the human species. To 
every 1,000 persons, only one reaches 100 years of 
age ; to every 100, only 6 reach the age of 66, and 
not more than one in 500 live to 80 years of age. 

There are on the earth 1,400,000,000 of inhabit- 
ants, and of these 333,333,333 die every year, 
86,400 every day, 3,600 every hour, 60 every min- 
ute, or one every second. These losses are about bal- 
anced by an equal number of births. The married 
are longer-lived than single, and above all, those 
who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Tall 
men live longer than short ones ! Women have 
more chances of life in their favor previous to be- 
ing 50 years of age than men, but fewer afterwards. 

The number of marriages is in proportion of 175 
to every 1,000 individuals. Marriages are more 
frequent after the equinoxes — that is, during the 
months of June and December. Those born in the 
spring are generally more robust than others. Births 
and deaths are more frequent by night than by day. 
The number of men capable of working or bearing 
arms is calculated at one-fourth the population. 

HUMAN SPEECH ON THE GLOBE. 

"Different tongues, 3,600; languages, 860; dia- 
lects, 5,000 ; 150 translations of the Bible ; " and re- 
ligions, 1,000. "Eighty languages are spoken daily 



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in New York city," says Dr. Bacon. But how 
much Babelitish? 

LIFE EXPECTATIONS. 

At birth, the expectation is 32J years ; at end of 1 
year, 36! \ 2, 38f ; 3, 40; 4, 40! ; 5, 40$; 6, 40! ; 
7, 40I; 8, 40! ; 9, 39J ; 10, 39f ; 11, 38! ; 12, 38; 
13. 37J-; i4» 3^f ; 15, 3<5i; 16, 3S|; 17, 35f ; 18, 
35 5 *9> 34lh 20,34!; 21,34; 22,29!; 23,33; 
2 4' 3 2 |; 25, 32f; 26,32; 27,31!; 28,31; 29, 
30|;-30, 30J; 31,30; 32,291; 33,29; 34> 28 f; 
35,28!; 36,27!; 37'27f; 38,27; 39,26!; 40, 
26541,25!; 42,251; 43,24!; 44,24!; 45,24; 
46, 23f ; 47, 22!; 48, 22!; 49, 21!; 50, 21!; 51, 
20J; 52, 20; 53, 19J; 54, 19; 55, i8|; 56, 17!; 
57, 17!; 58, i6|; 59, 16; 60, 15I; 61, 14I; 62, 
Hi 5 6 3> *3f ; 6 4> x 3; 65, I2 |-; 66, 12; 67, ill; 
68,11; 69,10^; 70, 10; 71, 9f ; 72, 9^73, 8f; 

74' 8J ; 75, 71 ; 76, 71 ; 77, 7 ; 78, 6J ; 79' 6 i 5 80, 
5| ; 81,5!; 82,5!; 83, 4 |; 84, 4 f; 85,4!; 86,4!; 
87»3j5 88, 3f; 89, 3J ; 90,3!; 91,3!; 9 2 > 3^5 
93, 2!; 94, 2; 95, if; 96, 1!; 97, if; 98, i|; 
99, 1. 

LOCAL DEATH AVERAGE. 

The death average, anno 1879, in the United 
States, was i|- per cent. ; in England. 2 ; in France, 
3; in Virginia, Am., 1 per cent. Old Virginia is 
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close by her, despite of the many foreigners and. fac- 
tories, and " chilly winds." 

One of the human race dies, on an average, each 
second of time. 

Of mothers, only as i to 170 die in childbirth in 
America^, in England, as 1 to 125 die thus. 

Deaths via rail-cars are in a much less ratio than 
by other modes of travel. Consumption, in the 
United States, is the great consumer, especially at 
the north and east. 

Jews live five years longer than Protestants ; are 
more careful of iheivfood and habits. 

Description. Men average, in United States, 
5 feet 7| inches in height ; and about 138 pounds 
in weight ; and have brown or auburn hair ; blue 
or hazel eyes, generally. These prevail mostly 
with native Americans ; but beautiful differences 
and blendings, and numerous varieties of height, 
weight, and complexion, obtain in all localities. 

OCCUPATIONS COMPARED. 

A table, by Dr. Tarbell, of one hundred persons, 
being in diverse occupations, living to seventy or 
upwards : 

Clergymen, 42 ; farmers, 40 ; merchants, 35 ; 
militia, 33; lawyers, 29; artists, 28; teachers, 27; 
soldiers, 25 ; physicians, 24. 



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LIFE, CLASS, AGE, LOCALITY. 

The average length of life in Frankfort, Germany, 
is, viz. : The clergy live 66 years; truckers, gar- 
deners, and butchers, 57 ; lithographers, tool- 
grinders, stone-workers, copper-platers, painters, 
and millers, 41. Mortality in the United States is 
1 J per cent. ; in England, 2 ; in Virginia, U. S., 1 ; 
and about the same in New Hampshire and Ver- 
mont. Those wearing beards and moustaches, 
doing dusty work, live from one to three years 
longer than others. 

ANATOMY OF HUMAN BONES. 

Head: skull, 8 ; ear, 4 ; face, 14 ; teeth, 24 = 50. 

Trunk: ribs, 24; spinal, 24; pelvis, 4; breast, 1 ; 
tongue, 1 = 54. 

Limbs: upper, 64; lower, 64 = 128 + 54 + 
50 = 232. 

PORES OF THE SKIN. 

The number in each square inch being 2,800, and 
man having 2,500 square inches of surface, the 
whole number of pores of the skin is 7,000,000. 
How healthy, then, are frequent and entire ablu- 
tions ! The food canal is thirty feet long ; small 
part, five feet; large, twenty-five feet. The lacteals 
are twelve fingers long. How fearfully and won- 
derfully man is made ! 



296 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

DEATH-BED REPENTANCE. 

An English physician says only three out of one 
thousand persons supposed tobe dying reformed, gave 
any evidence of a credible change, on recovery. A 
pastor says, only one out of two thousand supposed 
" death-bed reforms " have proved genuine. Rev. 
Dr. Gay, of Bath, gives, I think, nine true ones, 
out of three hundred sick-beds, supposed at the time 
to be dying-beds. 

NATURAL SCIENCE. 

" The temperature of the Atlantic," says Lieut. 
Berryman, "at four miles' depth, is from io° to 20 
below zero." "Air," it is said, "is dense as water 
at thirty-four miles deep, and water is doubly dense 
at ninety-four deep, and as dense as quicksilver at 
thirty-six miles deep." 

The lowest temperature found in the Arctic re- 
gions by Dr. Hayes was 66\° and 68° below zero. 
Artificial cold is 130 — the extreme. 

Water in artesian wells is one degree warmer 
every sixty or eighty feet deep. 

"The temperature of the air falls five degrees for 
every mile we rise above the earth. At forty-five 
miles hicrh it is 22S below zero." — London Times. 

Every mile below the surface of the earth, the 
thermometer falls one degree Fahrenheit. 

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ing from the sun, one and a quarter seconds from 
the moon, and four hundred years from the most 
distant star. One thousand stars are seen by the 
naked eye in winter, and eighty millions by a 
powerful glass." 

Seven parts of snow and four of nitric acid give 
cold 30 below zero. Three parts of snow and two 
of distilled acid give 46 below zero. Equal parts 
of alcohol and water freeze at 7 . The greatest 
density of water without pressure is 39 . It is rarer 
and warmer in ice. 

Ocean Deaths. — The Atlantic averages thirteen 
thousand feet deep, and is like a tray in shape. 
The volume of all waters is to the land out of water 
as 36 to 100. 

American seamen number about one million. 
About half are of the New England States, a third 
are of foreign birth, and the others of different 
States. 

ALTITUDES. 

The Mount of Olives is 180 feet above Mount 
Moriah, or 200 feet above the valley of Kedron. 
The Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below ocean-level. 
The Mediterranean is 10 feet above ocean-level. 
Jerusalem is 2,200 feet above the sea. 
Mount Sinai is 9,300 feet high. 
Mount Carmel is 1,700 feet high. 
Mount Lebanon is 9,375 feet high. 



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Smoky Mountain, in South Carolina, is 6,700 feet 
high. 

Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, is 6,428 
feet high. 

DEGREES OF HEAT, FAHRENHEIT. 

Cast iron melts at 3,479°; iron, 2,786°; gold, 
2,200°; copper, 1,986° ; silver, 1,873°; brass, 1,560°; 
lead, 612°; tin, 442°; sulphur, 212°. Water boils 
at 210°; alcohol, 184°; fire heat is 1,141°; fever, 
112 ; blood, 98°; summer, 76°; temperate, 6o°. 
Olive oil freezes at 36° ; water, 32°; wine, 20°; oil 
of turpentine, 14°; oil of vitriol, 1°; mercury, 39 
below zero ; nitric acid, 45° below zero. 

LAW STUDIES. 

1. The Bible; 2. Law of nature and nations; 
3. American jurisprudence; 4. Constitutional law; 
5. Municipal law; 6. Principles of legislation; 
7. Interpretation of statutes ; 8. Criminal Law; 9. 
Law of evidence ; 10. Roman law; 11. Law of evi- 
dence and equity; 12. Ecclesiastical law; 13. Fo- 
rensic duties; 14. Professional ethics; 15. Unwrit- 
ten law. 

EARLY CONVERSIONS. 

John the Baptist, from his birth ; Rev. Jonathan 
Edwards, at seven years of age ; Dr. Isaac Watts, at 
nine years ; Matthew Henry, at eleven years ; Rev. 
Robert Hall, at twelve years ; Rev. J. D. Fulton, 
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Rev. J. Edwards says, " a child of four years was 
born anew." And Rev. Mr. Lord says " an Indian 
girl in his family was converted at four }^ears of 
age.'' Also, a niece of the author gave evidence 
of conversion under four years of age. 

INTERESTING VARIETY. 

The Lord's day is observed as Sunday by Chris- 
tians ; Monday, by the Greeks ; Tuesday, by the 
Persians ; Wednesday, by the Assyrians ; Thurs- 
day, by the Egyptians ; Friday, by the Moors and 
Turks; Saturday, by the Jews and Sabbatarians. 

The records say, " church-members in the United 
States give to the cause of benevolence less than 
fifty cents each, on the average." To whom much 
is given, of him much is required. 

Mr. Delavan said, "six-tenths of the taxes of New 
York were for intemperance." Enough to build 
yearly the Erie Canal and Croton Water Works. 
What if as much were expended to convert the 
world ? 

The New York Tribune said, "of one hundred 
early Californians, fifty got miserable, forty were 
better off at home, five were gainers, four got rich, 
and one made a fortune." 

Dr. Beard says, "the big bell of Russia weighs 
430,000 pounds, is sixty feet in diameter, and thirty 



300 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

feet high. The monks once used it for a chapel, 
with a cross on the top." 

On dit: Only four divorces in England by Parlia- 
ment have been granted in one hundred and fifty 
years. One is so hard to be obtained. 

A Sabbath-day's journey is three fourths to one 
mile ; but a Bible-day's journey is thirty-three and a 
half miles. 

Thomas Roberts says, "Joseph of Arimathea 
preached in Britain in the year 63, coming in a 
Phoenician ship whose merchants came to sell their 
fabrics for tin." 

Trances. — Rev. William Tennant, of New Jer- 
sey, was in a trance for three days, recovered, and 
preached successfully many years after. Like Paul, 
he saw unutterable things. 

Rev. Peter Butner, of North Carolina, was in a 
trance five days, and was himself again. Others 
have experienced the like, and many in a less degree. 

LUXURIES. 

"In Berlin, it is beer; Stockholm, brandy; Ma- 
drid, chocolate ; London, strong wine ; Constanti- 
nople, coffee ; Paris, light wines ; Rome, spiced 
wine; Athens, rosined wine ; Edinburgh, whiskey; 
Canton, opium ; East Indies, arrack; West Indies, 
rum ; California, strong wine ; Washington, eclectic 
intoxicants and various dainties." — Review, 



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MERCHANTS SUCCESS. 

In Boston, Mass., only three out of a hundred 
finally prosper. 

In New York city, only six firms, depositors in 
banks, out of a thousand, forty years of age, escaped 
bankruptcy. 

In general, according to Hon. Mr. Freedly and 
others, "only three or five in a hundred escape 
failure, and many go under several times." 

FONT LETTERS PROPORTIONED. 

Capitals. I, first in place ; T, second ; A, third ; 
then E, &c. 

Small Letters. No. e, 1,200; i, 900; a, 850; 
n, o, and s, 800; h, 640; r, 620; d, 440; 1, 400; 
n, 340 ; c and m, 300 ; f, 250 ; w and y, 200 ; g and 
p, 170; v, 120; k, 80; q, 50; j and x, 40; z, 20; 
fi, 50 ; ff, 40 ; fl, 20 ; ffi, 15 ; ffl, 10 ; ag, 10 ; 02, 6. 

ENCOURAGING PROGRESS. 

Civilization is better than barbarism ; cultiva- 
tion, than barrenness ; economy, than waste or prodi- 
gality ; industry, than sloth, vice, and crime; ele- 
gance, than rusticity ; Christianity, than infidelity or 
forms. 

A great city is the mother of art, nurse of science 
and literature, promoting refinement of manners and 



302 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

felicity, with other advantages ; but it has many ac- 
cumulated evils, and great, if not corresponding, 
disadvantages. Yet there is a necessity, or a com- 
pensation, everywhere. 

How the institutions of learning, reforms, revi- 
vals, preachers, evangelists, missions, and Chris- 
tians, all multiply ! 

A colored preacher in South Carolina immersed 
223 converts in one hour and five minutes, in July, 
1857. So many ministers have baptized, as was 
done at Pentecost. 

POPULATION OF THE GLOBE. 

Asia contains 779,997,000; Europe, 311,969,000; 
Africa, 188,418,279; North America, 59,777,000; 
South America, 29,624,353; Oceanica, 30,979,781. 
Total number, 1,405,615,382. In the United States 
of America, 50,000,000. I have gleaned and sifted 
verified facts, and approximated at least the true 
numbers. 

CHURCHES AND MEMBERS ON THE GLOBE. 

Roman Catholics number 157,000,000; Greek 
Catholics, 89,692,700 ; six other Oriental churches, 
7,500,000; Protestants, 97,139,000; Mohamme- 
dans, 170,000,000; Buddhists, 34,000,000; other 
Asiatic religionists, 260,000,000 ; Pagans, 300,000,- 
000 ; Jews, 8,000,000, and 10,000,000 dissociated. 



STATISTICS. 303 



In the United States of America, the Methodist 
Episcopal Church numbers 1,700,000; other 
Methodists, 1,400,000, — making in all 3,100,000; 
"regular" Baptists, 2,133,000; other Baptists, 
885,000, — making in all 3,018,000; Presbyte- 
rians (of all classes), 1,250,100; Congregation- 
alists, 382,920 ; Protestant Episcopalians 
(home and abroad), 340,713. 

I omit the statistics of different Protestants in 
Europe, Asia, and Africa, for obvious reasons. 

The Bible is given to some 350,000,000, or about 
one-fourth of the population of the world. Truly, 
the field is yet great, and the laborers comparatively 
few. Let us pray the Lord, and use the means to 
send forth more laborers and Bible blessings to all 
the destitute of mankind. Let us thank God, 
take courage, soon shout victory, and hear Christ 
say M well done " in glory ! 

inches of rain-fall. 
Rain-falls in the United States of America, viz. : 
In Lower Mississippi Valley, 60 inches ; N. Missouri 
and Central Iowa, 50 in. ; Great Lakes, 30 in. ; Ft. 
Snelling and Michigan, 25 in. ; Virginia and Penn- 
sylvania mountains, 35 to 37 in. ; Atlantic Coast and 
Ohio Valley, 42 to 47 in. ; Lake Champlain, eleva- 
tions in New York and Northeast, 45 in. ; along 
coast states from Maine to Delaware, 42 to 45 in. 



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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



SPECIMEN OF A CORRECTED PROOF-SHEET. 
THE CROWNING OF PETRARCH. 



n ^Nothing can be conceived more affecting or noble than 6. cafu*-. 

q(* that ceremony. The super) i palaces and porticos by ^^,om. 

which had rolled the ivory chariots of Marius and a&4 q) 

ae Caesar had long mouldered into dust. The laureled «^y- cf 

fasces, the golden eagles, the shouting Legions, the cap^^ftf. - / 

[ [ tives, and the pictured cities were indeed wanting to /eact 

his victorious procession. The sceptre had passed away & 

9 from Rome. But she still aetained the mightier influence 

4&* . of an /empireXintellectual; and was now to confer the X 

dtet. prop dor reward of an intellectual trii/mph. To the man u, I 

w ^ had extended the dominion of her ancient language ^ ace / e + m 

■l.0 had erected the trophies of philosophy and Am 

imagination in the [_ haunts of ignorance and forvon ey-, JL~s,„j»m 

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whose captives were the he arts of admiring nations / / 

i i enchained by the influence of his , , — whose spoils 

*yLom. were the treasures of ancient genius — the Eternal City \"/ >"/ 

tvif. offered the glorious }and/ just\tribute/of her gratitude. \ £■>*). 

qA^o\ /Amid the ruined monuments iff ancient, and the in- at 



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e / fant en/ctions of modern apt; he who had restored the 
^T broken link/between/dietwo ages of human civilization # 

was crowned >with the wreath which - h*s\ AvuwvaA ^ 



from the moderns who ow(d|ejtohim their refinement, — from t?<^ '. 
the ancients who owed to him their lame Never was ax O 
coronation so august witnessed by Westminster or Rheims. ^ZaA. 
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CHAPTER XXV. 

CHOICE MOTTOES. 

PSESUS CHRIST the Savior of lost man. 
g) Serve God and be happy, and so help others, 
Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest! 
Where duty calls me you may find me. 
On earth peace, and good will to mankind ! 
Ever trust God, but keep your armor on. 
No boast of parentage of the same origin. 
I will do my best, at all times, and improve. 
I can't be poor, as God my Savior is rich. 
Ever mix praise with censure if you can. 
Prayer and provender hinder no pilgrim. 
Use what you know and you will know the rest. 
Better a diamond with a flaw than none at all. 
Never be in haste to decide questions. 
Have faith in God and abide your time. 
Good words and works are precious jewels. 
Sublimity of speech is the echo of the soul. 
Put not all your eggs in one frail basket. 
Never wound the conscience or the Spirit. 
Let our principal men be men of principle. 
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306 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

If you don't fill the child's head, Satan will. 

A face full of promise secures attention. 

" Press on," was the motto of Napoleon I. 

Try to make improvements for others' good. 

Friends worth having are not cast, but grow. 

Words are vain fig-leaves to naked crime. 

Magnify every good, but minify evil. 

O masterly inactivity ! make haste slowly. 

The pleasure of doing good never wears out. 

Let the galled jade wince, or the hit bird flutter. 

With ship aground you must pull, dive, or die. 

Open rebuke is better than feigned love. 

Sympathy generally favors the weaker. 

The voice of the multitude is common sense. 

Saving is gaining ; waste not, want not. 

Believers have a life that death cannot touch. 

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 

Nothing is impossible to him who believes. 

Never be discouraged doing duty ; only trust. 

Keep the stream, path, or line to the point-star. 

Sir Walter Scott was like a giant cracking nuts. 

The Scotch drummer knew no tune " Retreat." 

Agassiz would lose a dinner to dissect a fish. 

A general regard to others' good will induce one 
to promote his own happiness, and leave a rich leg- 
acy to future generations. 

Christian love is the mighty, noble, lasting, and 
growing exercise of the "soul-liberty." 



CHOICE MOTTOES. 307 

It is a long lane that has no turn in it. 

Readers, like geologists, must analyze all. 

Applause we like, climbing the ladder fame. 

Over-fine clothes, furniture, houses, teams, or any- 
thing, are more trouble than profit. 

Attempt great things, and expect them of God. 

Indian boys may shoot at coppers, but we can't. 

The greater our general so is the standard. 

A wise man gains by other minds and works. 

Speak and act as if responsible, and saying what 
is of the greatest importance. 

On d/t, " Dr. Nott's prayers ruled Union College." 

I have or know no superior but God and the U. S. 

A woman and a man wedded make a whole man. 

Negro : " Go out of self into Christ, into heaven." 

Never use words or signs not understood. 

Satan and Adam began the fall, wars, and woes. 

Never sponge nor wear out your old welcome. 

Beware of tale-bearers as of thievish dogs. 

The finest goes best, first, fast, and long. 

Coming events cast their shadows ahead. 

No tyrant can take from you your knowledge. 

Oh, ye braves, don't give up the ship to slaves ! 

The lowest strata of gold make the high peaks. 

Man's capacity and rescue is worthy of a God. 

Speech has no power like startling sight. 

I fear I shan't know my duty ; and then, not do it. 

The big elephant and the tiger fear a mouse. 



308 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A hint to a wise man is better than a sermon. 
Great interests at stake dispel sleep. 
Time in pleasure seems short ; in pain, an age. 
Religious work is good to make us love life. 
Figs or grapes stuck on thorns cannot grow. 
Knowledge curses the finally disobedient. 
An egg to-day is worth a cock to-morrow. 
Brevity is crowned the spice of wit. 
Vestal fires never burn pure hands. 
Education without principle, morality, or religion, 
empowers madmen or makes demons. 

The heart marks the size and power of the man. 
Locomotives and men smash by lost time. 
A man's will is a key or index to his character. 
The Cross is the test and measure of man. 
If you don't train your child early, Satan will. 
A fool admires himself in silly company. 
Wit is most needed when dealing with a fool. 
Better late than never ; yea, better never be late. 
Benevolence is the highest act of virtue. 
Pigmies are pigmies still, though set on Alps. 
Fools and their property are soon parted. 
In God let nature course and nature care. 
Seek posthumous good as well as present use. 
Indulge no fallen or perverted feelings. 
Harmony of powers : — a true temperance life. 
A merited bad name should not provoke us. 
Sorrow, dangerous, oft too deep for tears. 



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309 



Boys' motto : Hit your match, not an inferior. 
Royal : Alexander fights only with kings. 
Consent cordially, and refuse decidedly. 
A Bishop's motto : Serve God and be cheerful. 
A practical motto : Love is love's reward. 
Never trust genius to rise, but work, work. 
Our mill grinds on time, fine, slow, and sure. 
The face is the like of mind, make, or character. 
Half the world don't know how the other live. 
The friend who wants me is the one I want. 
Quarrel with a chimne} T -sweep and get smut. 
If I educate the mothers I make the nation. 
Millions of money for an inch of time. 
Sport is poor that is not worth the candle. 
Mothers, rocking the cradle, rule the world. 
Novel-reading is a source of mental disease. 
Paley couldn't afford to keep a conscience. 
The fiercest mutinies are of the stomach. 
Anger is no argument, but rather admission. 
We need reminding more than instruction. 
An angry man, on reflection, abhors himself. 
A boy knows his kite out of sight by the pull. 
Roll the stone, and keep it rolling, or sink. 
Like lions in cages, we don't know our power. 
The less gain we have the easier it is to give. 
Fire is in your flint ; you must strike it out. 
One honest effort tells the soul's salvation. 
As a fool thinks, so our clock or credit ticks. 



310 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Quacks, like scuds, have more wind than rain. 
Short pleasures in sin beget long misery. 
He who spits against God gets it in his face. 
You can't try mind, meat, or money en masse. 
The most learned men are most apt and plain. 
Live on Csesar's meat, and you'll grow as great. 
A church or man too big to be well or ill at once. 
What is good for the many is good for each one. 
A lie started, and truth can't catch it in a week. 
We can't answer what no gentleman can utter. 
Christian motto : No clouds no rainbows. 
If one throws mud don't touch it, nor rub it in. 
Sane bodies are essential to sane minds. 
A Christian : I won't go where I can't see Jesus. 
Fools dance where angels dare not tread. 
Woman : The noblest being the Lord ever made. 
A cancer, or sin, will not yield to lip-salve. 
Wealth : Head-wisdom, acts, and purity of heart. 
A legacy to the world : A well-trained family. 
The best sight : Seeing with our own eyes. 
Religion : A good armor but a bad cloak. 
Smaller by degrees and beautifully less. 
Look, speak, and act as doing mighty things. 
Ocean rolled to waft a feather or drown a fly. 
Wickedness and guilt betray themselves. 
Flattery is the art, trade, and food of fools. 
When fools litigate knaves get the prize. 
The gods make mad whom they wish to destroy. 



CHOICE MO TTOES. 311 

Tears and joys, dark or sunshine, is our life. 
True education is vitalized knowledge. 
Healthful : A life-object, and a mind to grasp it. 
Idleness buries a man alive, dying of no work. 
A spur in the head is worth a score in the heel. 
Principles alone do run without smoke. 
Pay as } r ou go : The philosopher's stone. 
The cowardly fear doing harm, so do no good. 
Lift one up, then throw him, as wrestlers do. 
A blunder is worse than a crime. — (Napoleon I.) 
Christianity and Churchanity are not one. 
Laboring for revivals and souls is a luxury. 
The thief is honest when it thunders hard. 
Micawber motto : " Something may turn up." 
Party is like a snake's head, pushed by the tail. 
Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. 
Go West to spread, as a hen on two dozen eggs. 
Let us see God, before man, every day. 
Bitter pills often make sweet health. 
Every great evil has its compensation. 
To see eye to eye, get high on the watch-tower. 
Cicero says, "No man in his senses will dance." 
Wise men change their minds ; fools will not. 
No books so legible as our lives, daily. 
Truth is stronger than fiction, and better. 
Beware alike of hypocrites and time-servers. 
He is negatively happy as he knows no more. 
Force makes hypocrites, but no better hearts. 



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PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



In law : False in one thing, false in all. 
Success is the test or measure of true merit. 
Purify the source, and the streams will tell. 
The blood of martyrs the seed of the Church. 
Listen to others' advice, but go by your own. 
Health is wealth of body and power of mind. 
There is no choice when necessity rules. 
Do well for thyself and all will help you. 
Dr. Nott's motto : "Ability to say no is heroic." 
Individuality never grew ; it was cast. 
Heaven favors all who help themselves. 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 
Deeper the conviction, deeper the conversion. 
Ever welcome light for the sake of truth. 
A lie will run itself down if not chased. 
If we live to please, we must please to live. 
Live not for a day, but for all time — eternity. 
What is good for the many is good for one. 
Elevate yourself, but don't pull down others. 
The best, or the worst gift to man is a wife. 
The index of a great preacher is suggestion. 
Don't destroy a staging till the house is up. 
Good habits are the secret of true success. 
Beware of two enemies : Satan and old self. 
Manner is matter multiplied for effect. 
Our highest bliss is to yield all to God. 
Christianity is the life of God's word. 
Music cures the madman, or keeps him well. 



CHOICE MOTTOES. 



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God tempers the winds to the shorn lambs. 
Sin begins with the eye or works of the heart. 
A half truth is no better than a whole lie. 
Ever do what you ought, come what may. 
Better fail in good than succeed in bad work. 
Keep your place and it will keep you. 
Love what you should, and so easily do it. 
It costs less to bear wrong than to avenge it. 
He is strong who can keep his temper long. 
He who walks with wise men shall be wise. 
First catch the fish ; cook and eat after that. 
Never reckon up the chickens till hatched. 
Tell the good side also, not merely the bad. 
A pot had better boil over than not boil at all. 
A man who does nothing is Satan's studio. 
An idler is a moth, a drone, unfit for life. 
Bliss oft comes as meat from a chestnut-burr. 
God has his wise plan for every man. 
In law or physic, prevention is the cure. 
What is worth doing is worth doing well. 
Never swap horses in the midst of the river. 
Thought is silver ; words, gold ; works, jewels. 
Learning is a fine staff, but a poor crutch. 
Poets are born, not made, yet need education. 
Native eloquence is the eruption of the soul. 
Gravitation makes hearts of love unite. 
They ask not how he died, but how he lived. 
A genius's motto : rf It is in me, and must come out." 



314 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

The rose by any name would smell as sweet. 
Never say much, if anything, when offended. 
Beware of novels, gossip, and profanity. 
Col. Crocket : Know you are right, and go ahead. 
Short reckonings make long friends. 
Bible key : The faith and practice of Baptists. 
The Bible alone is the religion of Baptists. 
The millers motto : First come, first serve. 
The seaman's motto : Fair play and no favors ; no 
weapons used, nor knocks when down. 

Tobacco-men, cannibals, or buzzards, omit. 

An humble beginning of a triumphant end ! 

Put truth to the eye and take its bearing. 

"Point no point" is a minister's lee shore. 

Fate is blind, but Providence has eyes. 

" Heresy," says Dr. Alexander, "is want of love." 

All the way to heaven is heaven in earnest. 

Pull all, pull always, pull all together ! 

A minister's life is the life of his ministry. 

Nature never lies ; a horse is honest. 

Small company, but very select and fine. 

The richest experience is to know Christ. 

I will ; it's in me ; and the talent shall come out. 

Idleness is burying a man alive in chains. 

Have motive and aim in all you say or do. 

Never allow your energy to grow stagnant. 

Speech is a picture of the mind and heart. 

The devil holds the torch for ill processions. 



CHOICE MOTTOES. 315 

Truth, oil, and virtue will ever rise above. 
A man of genius is company for himself. 
A constant melancholy is chronic, poor war. 
A boy's three fathers : God, Washington, his own. 
" Tell them to stand up for Jesus," said Dr. Tyng. 
A sore on my foot is a sore on my whole body. 
"Unmarried ministers or soldiers," says Rev. Dr. 
Poor, "are equal to the married, doing duty." 
Marriage is honorable, with purity and love. 
Mothers first mold the body and the soul. 
Parents impress the child for good or evil. 
As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined. 
A child begun on God's altar is early converted. 
God works salvation into every broken heart. 
A Christian works out his salvation by grace. 
Character finds its proper rate and reward. 
Giving grows by giving, as our love by loving. 
Use charity ; God can see merit, as you can't. 
Old age is honorable, wearing a "starry crown." 
Do not be in a hurry ; but be saintly diligent. 
Wisdom is ever justified by her children. 
Patience must work, to bear sublime fruit. 
A sermon of no height or depth must be long. 
You need not say new things, but say all well. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



MAXIMS. 

POLLOWING Christ closely is easy and de- 
lightful ; but afar off, hard, grievous, and 
vain. 
You see, or may see, with your own eyes that the 
Bible is being fulfilled ; if so, it must be the Word 
of God ; and if this is so, Christianity is true. So 
try to know and do more, and be better every day. 

Unlearned and shallow minds are apt to be fear- 
ful, superstitious, and conceited. 

Make a man think he is more cunning than your- 
self, and you can easily outwit him. 

A wiseacre is one indebted to his conceit for his 
facts, and to his memory for his wit. 

As the sun far eclipses the glow-worm, so does the 
Gospel all the wisdom of men. 

Sin is like the vision of the "Spanish Inquisition," 
opening artful, cruel arms, embracing the seized 
victim, and cutting him in pieces. 

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MAXIMS. 



317 



Disputations leave truth in the middle and the 
parties at extreme ends. 

Do not look too long at a time ; the bright sun or 
reflections may dazzle the eye. 

Get all you can without hurting any soul, body, 
or interest; save all you can, and give all you can, 
till you find it more blessed to give than to receive. 

John Knox said to Queen Mary : " In the pulpit I 
am not my own master, but must preach what I am 
commanded by the King of kings, and dare not, 
on my soul, flatter anyone on the face of the earth." 
Why should not all ministers be as honest and faith- 
ful? 

Religion is our food, cover, fence, home, ship, 
sail, power, consolation, and assurance. 

No wheat is without chaff; no kernel without 
shell ; no corn without husk ; no genuine without 
the spurious ; no good without the bad ; no Chris- 
tianity without an opposite ; no true religion or con- 
verts without the false. 

Isaac Newton said : " I'm like a child on the sea- 
shore gathering pebbles, while the unfathomable deep 
lies before me." So we feel as we know more of 
God, his works, word, wonders, or worship. 

Lazy professors and formalists recline under Sa- 
tan's " shade trees," Adam-like. 



318 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Bishop Haven said : " I have received many more 
nuggets of golden truth from the poor than from the 
rich and learned." 

The "marriage knot" is a gordian knot that can- 
not be untied, cut, or nullified by man. 

Worship without the Spirit would be like the play 
of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. 

Robbers, thieves, counterfeiters, gamblers, rum- 
mies, spend or give freely. Now watch three things : 
Thoughts, temper, tongue. 

Typhus fever and other ills come of bad drainage, 
ventilation, air, water, and exposure. 

A man is a man, soul and body, not a mere idea 
or thing, but a germ, a spark of immortality. 

Man's felicity is like and equal to his virtues, 
vigor, capacity, knowledge, and duration. But war 
is murder set to power, order, and music. 

George Washington had the magnanimity of a 
hero, the unanimity of a philosopher, the virtues of 
Christendom, and a hope of eternity. 

Give your person, property, and all to God, and 
he repays manifold. As sons of a king, we are 
rich, honored, unburdened of care or sin. 

A slander, too gross to be credited, recoils on its 
own inventor, like a snake, to bite him. 



MAXIMS. 



319 



The greatest thing for man to know, said Alex- 
ander the Great, is that with which he is least ac- 
quainted — himself in person. 

A straw on the ocean's surface gets more notice 
than the treasures of the deep. So it is with dilet- 
tanti and vanity fairs. 

Praying makes us leave off sinning, and sinning 
makes us leave off praying. 

" Gout," physicians say, " is the elder daughter of 
Venus and Bacchus, or old Epicurus." 

On dit, "Cromwell's army in camp acted like 
angels, but in the field fought like fiends." 

Benjamin Franklin : " Diligence in business has 
presented me to five kings ; to dine with one." 

Fool's character : Anger without cause ; speech 
without profit ; change without motive or reason ; 
inquiry without object ; neglecting body, mind, and 
soul for the flesh and world ; trusting enemies rather 
than God or friends ; destroying himself. 

While truth makes free, freedom makes us truly 
happy in Christ and life. 

Love, faith, and efforts stimulate, and ever strength- 
en our powers without loss. 

Gormandizers and drunkards dig their own graves 
with their teeth and lips. 



320 



PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



A handsome person is pleasing to the eye, but 
a good one to the heart. The former is a jewel, the 
latter a royal treasure, a crown. 

Virtue brings its own reward — a hundred-fold 
here and myriads in eternity. % 

God is ever more ready to bless natural, moral, or 
spiritual means than we are to use them. 

The Spirit, energy, earnestness, and wisdom for 
success dwell together in unity. 

Paul felt the body of death and a thorn, but got 
the answer to his prayers and victory. 

Great men and geniuses find their true places in 
times of great events. 

The big wind-organ of Europe requires a hurri- 
cane to make it ring ; so it is with big men. 

A busy man is troubled with one devil, but an 
idle person with a thousand or more. 

Troubles beset us like hornets ; so the less ado we 
make the better, or a swarm comes. 

A wise man goes on his way as the moon does, 
and don't stop to fight the barking dogs, like wise- 
acres, nor get left behind. So money or science 
minus wisdom is a failure. The wise succeed. 

Conscience indexes the virtues of the man, while 
knowledge is power for good or for evil. 



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321 



Macauly said, "A man cannot be written down 
unless he does it himself. The calumny and abuse 
of enemies are as nothing if he is only true and 
right." Nay, nor put down or passed by another. 

Love fulfills law, exchanges, and never forgets ; 
while greedy tipplers make Satan's firemen. 

Religion and Christians are like sunlight, striking 
first near by and then going on. Let sin go to the 
sea as "Boston did the tea," and be free. 

Keep ahead of the ideas of your age, and others 
will follow and sustain you. 

Reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, 
and speaking a ready man. 

A Russian can't properly marry the second time, 
so a wife is more respected and cared for. 

The Gospels, Acts, and Epistles are the keys of 
Bible truth and illustration, not "tradition." 

A man's name can be changed by a legislature, 
but a woman's name by a mere man. 

Troubles borrowed and stolen outnumber by far 
all others in the world. 

Pride begs or gets more than want, but is less 
social, satisfied, or grateful. 

Indian maxim : " If one burns within and can't 
keep cool, he is no man at all." 
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322 



PEARLS OF WORLDS. 



A Spaniard don't fight against his king. If you 
can say nothing good of some without lying, then 
don't speak but to warn. 

If a fly lights on your knee, don't strike hard 
enough to break your leg or hurt others. 

Thinking, seeing, and active men mutually judge 
each other very correctly and profitably. 

The evangelist is a gospel, locomotive, seed-bag, 
full, free, and fleet ; scattering "good seed" profuse- 
ly everywhere "in all seasons." 

The voice of conscience is delicate and easy to be 
stifled, but so clear and active as instantly and dis- 
tinctly to justify or condemn. 

The use of reason is to adapt means to ends : The 
heart chooses, the mind wills, the reason dictates 
means and secures the object. 

How foolish and wicked to idolize the gift, and 
not love, obey, or thank the Giver of all good. 

Popery calls Protestantism dead, in hope of bury- 
ing its church-members alive. 

If you wish a thing done well, do it yourself; if 
indifferently, leave it to others. 

A Chinese puzzle : It is all there, but you must 
put it together for yourself. 



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323 



Selfishness, anger, and spite are always short- 
sighted, and react like a kicking gun. 

Whoever conquers envy of others' success gains 
more than millions, or he is wretched. 

Infidel's prayer : " God help me, if you live, and 
save my soul, if I have a soul." 

Never cross a bridge till you come to it ; nor loose 
your shoes till you see the river. 

When certain kinds of men love to exhibit them- 
selves, a screw is loose somewhere. 

It is better to wipe away the tears of others than 
to shed mere tears ourselves. 

Distance lends enchantment to the view, with an- 
ticipation or imagination rich or keen. 

Some have just science or logic enough to get 
into doubt or difficulty, but not to get out. See 
Dives, Parker, Paine, Huxley, or Ingersol. 

" For whoever shall do the will of God, he is my 
brother, and sister, and mother." O my rich re- 
lations ! 

Confiding cheerfulness in affliction is a Christian 
evidence, good example, "good cheer." 

Louis XIII., king of France, was beardless; so 
all his courtiers cut their beards off to please or flat- 
ter him. Flunkies are not all dead. 



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The Irishman's horse had only two faults, — he 
was hard to catch, and good for nothing then. 

Dr. De Witt says, " Artistic worship has ever been 
poisonous honey to Christians still sick and weak 
with sin.'' 

Man is a microcosm, a mirror, catching and re- 
flecting images from all around him and his. 

Atoms make the earth, drops the ocean, and mo- 
ments our years of life ; and every little helps in a 
good cause, so we grow up in Christ. 

E. Delavan, rather fast, said to himself, "Right 
about face ! " and became reformed, and a great 
temperance leader. Here is decision, a hero ! 

A farmer sang " Old Hundred " when his horses 
or team worked badly, and all was well. 

John Q^. Adams said " he could address but one 
lady successfully," and asked how he could address 
so many as were then present — a company. 

The devil, as a wrestler, sets one up, and then 
down ; as when their family was in want, Mrs. 
Scott said, " Husband, write some more nonsense" 

A soldier of Napoleon I., having a wound near 
his heart probed for a ball, cried out, "A little 
deeper, sir, and you will next hit the emperor." 

A doting father said, "My son is no Christian; 
but he is the sweetest sinner you ever saw." 



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Independence : To have a mind, heart, and soul of 
our own. Do not wait for fashion, friends, or policy 
to decide our duty ; but do it. Let not ridicule, 
popularity, or bribes incite or deter. 

True manhood comprises moral principle, lofty 
aims, specific work, fixed purposes. 

Man is a tale told, flower fading, shadow fleeing, 
blossom falling, grass withering, and a soul, like 
vapor, to vanish away. 

Idlers and sinners procrastinate, as if waiting time 
and day of grace to pass, as a river. 

A scientist educates a person, animal, vegetable, 
or stone, to improve the same. 

" Make Whitefield a bishop, and so stop his 
preaching," said George II., Satan-wise. 

"Is that all? Well, not so mighty a thing, after 
all," said a bride, after the marriage ceremony. 

All good in us leans on something higher. As an 
Indian took a helpless worm from a circle of fire, 
" so," said he, " Christ snatched me." 

A kite carried a wire rope over Niagara Falls for 
a bridge. So we by the Cross go up. 

Be like gum-trees : the more wounds, so let the 
yield be. But mere tears are only phosphate of 



326 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

lime, chloride of sodium, and a little water, and 
have no heart or blessing in them for us. 

Dr. Cheever says, "Intellectual preaching, with- 
out Christ and the Spirit, is no better than a dragon 
in the pulpit, to be gazed upon at midnight." 

Dr. McCosh says, "Young men are swayed in 
religious belief more by the spirit of the college 
than by the instruction." 

"A religion," says John Howe, "that will not gov- 
ern a man, will not save him." Nay, nor do any 
good. 

A Christian woman, eating a scanty meal, was 
grateful, and exclaimed, "All this, and Christ, too !" 

Religion ennobles the heart, intellect, soul, and 
makes honorable the whole human frame, — the 
temple of God. 

A little or short wife is made of such precious 
material, Dame Nature could not afford a larger. 

One might think the millennium had come, or 
passed, by seeing the little zeal in churches. 

I had rather have a carriage of four wheels and 
one horse, than one of one wheel and four horses. 

Never deface or mutilate a reading-book or news- 
paper, nor abstract either from a public room. 

The man who stoops to pick up a pin may be a 
merchant, money-broker, king. Instances rich. 



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Pigmies on giants' shoulders may see as far as the 
giants themselves, but not lift so much. 

Happy death : " He passed from his body as mu- 
sic from a string," said a friend. 

"I'm all right," said a juryman to the judge, "but 
there are eleven contrary dogs." We've many such. 

"The prayer f Our Father,'" says a sage, "far 
exceeds the eloquence of Cicero or Demosthenes." 

Slavery violates justice, philanthropy, economy, 
virtue, and religion among men ; but now the boys' 
proverb is, "Every man for himself, and the Lord 
for us all." Yes, for all the wide world. 

Said a good negro, "The old bigot knows too 
much for one, but not quite enough for two of us." 

You may hear of a man's good traits from his 
friends, but his bad ones from his enemies. 

Hypocrites steal the livery of heaven to serve the 
devil in ; or his kin, to win. 

Kind words never blister the tongue nor lips, nor 
froth the mouth of eloquence. 

Great results are oft from small beginnings ; as 
tall oaks from acorns grow r . 

Characteristics of Christians are a likeness to 
Christ, in person and example. 



328 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Great strength of body or mind cannot long co- 
exist without health and action. 

Don't seek, or watch, or keep what is not worth 
the time or candle. Let vanity go elsewhere. 

Streams do not rise above their fountains ; nor Sa- 
tan cast out Satan or sin ; nor wicked infidels and 
the vicious reform the world. 

Whatever you get over Satan's back you will lose 
under him ; and more, too. 

Never lose your center, sight, or courage, nor 
change plans in front of the enemy. 

"The people," said Napoleon I., "must have a 
religion ; nay, if not the true, they will have the 
false." 

The observation of scenery tends to excite reli- 
gious affections, often resisted; so the goodness of 
God leads to repentance. But sinners often harden 
themselves, like Pharaoh. 

Love, honesty, and faithfulness for God and souls 
surely point the way to heaven. 

Said a lady to a minister, "You are a much bet- 
ter-looking man since we heard you preach." 




CHAPTER XXVII. 

VARIETIES. 

|S|§|)ILETTANTE soars up through ethereal space 
HtMl amid the unclouded glories of imaginary 
worlds, wondering, whirling, and looking for rest 
where Noah's dove could not find a footing. So it 
is with sinners. 

The sons of ministers and deacons excel others 
five per cent, in religion, morals, office, influence, 
and general thrift. 

How many persons are like some insects, greater 
at first appearance ; or like some objects, more for- 
midable or perfect at a distance ! 

Paul's heart was larger than a continent, and his 
godly arms span the whole wide world. 

God fills the universe, yet dwells in the heart of 
the least Christian, and makes all work for us. 

Revivals, like the warm Gulf Stream dissolving 
icebergs, melts hearts and churches. 

John Bunyan was the prince of dreamers. So all 
on earth is a shadow ; but beyond is reality. 

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330 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A renegade friend is worse than ten Turks. 

We can no more define and describe true elo- 
quence than we can imitate thunder or paint the 
lightning, nor understand the new birth without ex- 
perience of it by grace. 

Man is a soul, of God's image, and not of Dar- 
win's whim, kit, or kin, of low monkey origin. 

Timidity runs himself to death to escape his 
shadow, like the " guilty fleeing with no man pur- 
suing." 

Religion without Christ has form, but no power, 
as rotten wood, a ghost, or gilded statue, at night. 

Appeal as soon to a tiger's mercy as to a miser. 

Natives of the tropics and arctics are indolent 
and improvident. The former are relaxed by heat, 
and the latter benumbed by cold. But in the tem- 
perate zone how intemperate are men. 

Coming events cast their shadows before. 

A -profane swearer was once rebuked by a man 
saying at the end of every sentence, " Shovel, tongs, 
and poker." 

We cannot always live comfortably with wives, 
and then but for a short time. But few at all can 
do without them. Then marry, not for short-lived 
pleasure, but for God, humanity, and safety. 

Henry G. Otis, in his last days, said, " My path 
has been of mingled roses and thorns ; but the roses 
are gone, and only thorns remain." 



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A boy said, " man was not the noblest work of 
God, for his mother was better than any man living." 

A negro told a preacher " to go where's most 
devil." 

Overdoing in nature or morals reacts on us. 

A son asked his father to quit swearing or praying. 

To kill sin, fire from above, not below. 

The carvings of heaven are made of old knotty 
hearts, with sins and will-nots cut out. 

Stem the rapids and go up, like the live fish. 

Religion to society is like oil to a raging sea, 
when all is made calm, and precious jewels are 
seen. 

A child reading inscriptions, aptly asked " where 
the bad were buried, as all epitaphs were good." 

When Whitefield re-landed in America, a clergy- 
man said to him, "I'm sorry." "So is Satan," he 
replied. 

Backsliders are like " flood-wood " in a freshet, or 
dust and dry leaves before the wind. 

A deacon arose and said " he wanted to make a 
few remarks before he began." How common ! 

A coward pulls himself into a small hole, and 
then pulls the hole in after him. 

A vain, egotistic, windy orator set his tongue 
agoing, going, and went off and left it running. 

It was said of a stingy man in London, England, 
refusing to give for missions, that "his heart might 



332 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

be put into a nut-shell ; " but, replied Rev. Robert 
Hall, "it would then crawl out at a maggot-hole." 

Go half "a mile, turn to the right, then left, and so 
on, till you get where nine roads meet; then take 
which you think best, and go on till you get some- 
where, as infidels direct. 

Woful waste makes woful want ; so he who 
swears distrusts his own word, as do others. 

No gain without pain, or worth without cost. 

Where the bees are, the honey is. Take a hint. 

To shake off trouble, set about doing good. 

The richer a man is, the greater are his wants. 
The wants of the poor are simple, few, and free. 

The Christian's oars in the life-boat are faith 
and works. Love is our motive power ; and we 
never shall sink till sin, like water, gets inside. 

Apology is egotism inside out ; the first we know, 
perhaps, of his shortcomings. 

Idleness is the secret sword of the devil, and 
buries victims alive, dying of nothing to do. 

A jury in Massachusetts could not be starved 
into a verdict, but taking the liquor away, they 
agreed. 

Garrick said, * Whitefield could make his au- 
dience thrill and weep simply by varying pronun- 
ciation of the word f Mesopotamia.'" His eloquence 
suited everybody but his wife, who made him very 
unhappy. Oh, " be filled with the Spirit ! " 



VARIETIES. 



333 



Say "yes" or "no" with caution and firm decision. 

A wager is no better than a fool's argument. 

A known enemy is safer than a treacherous friend. 

Women are intenser than men : better and worse. 

Generals, orators, and poets are born, not made. 

"I'll flog you, my son, soon as I get time." 
" Don't hurry, father," replied the lad, " I can wait a 
while." 

John Wesley said, " God's grace could be grafted 
into a crab-tree." It was so with his wife. 

The atheist can see savage footprints in the sand, 
but can't see God's hand-prints on the universe. 

Unitarians in New England grew up from " chris- 
tened " infants, and more are getting liberal. 

Says Dr. Bacon, " As young men are now from 
eighteen to twenty-five, so the nation will be twenty 
years to come." 

"Give me a stand, lever, and fulcrum, and I'll 
move the world," said a Silesian. 

" If God will only save me," said a woman, "he'll 
never hear the end of it in eternity." 

Milo carried a bull ; as he did so when it was a 
calf. 

A hen drinking, like a Christian, looks up. 

One sin, like a hole in a ship, may sink our soul. 

Whitefield doubted about seeing John Wesley, as 
he would be so near the throne, and himself so far 
off. 



334 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

" The stage," said a great player, M would be de- 
serted if they spoke like the preachers." 

A doorkeeper fell dead on getting good news. 

A mother in Rochester, N. Y., fell dead on 
getting news that her son was converted. 

"Turn to God a day before death," said a rabbi; 
"so turn to-day, so as to be sure." 

The boy is the promise of the man, — father. 

It is much to ask, but little cost to give. 

He never learns anything, nor ever forgets. 

Tell a story slowly to make it seem short. 

Mites, not the millions, make up our powers. 

A Catholic, gored by a bull, could get no priest 
to pray for him when dying, as he had no prayer in 
the book for one dying in that way. 

Says yohn Adams, " Students are governed more 
easily by promises, hopes, praises, and kindness, 
than by punishments, threats, or blames." 

It is most difficult, if not wrong, to find fault with 
amiable weakness or ignorance. 

Fish in the Mammoth Cave have no eyes, or light. 

Dumbfounding : A big organ, duddering voices. 

Pumpkins in California are large enough for ten 
men to stand around ; and redwood trees are large 
enough, and so hollow, that twenty men on horse- 
back might ride in ; yes, many more. 

A lady at sea in a storm, sea-sick, was afraid she 
would die, and then afraid she should not. 



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335 



"Lambert is so big," says one, "the hackman 
often comes twice for him." Yes, for smaller ones* 

Dickson Lewis was so big he could easily occupy 
four seats in Congress at one session. 

A fine, sensitive singer said " he trembled so that 
he could not shake." Most too fine ! 

Man is read by look, speech, walk, or finger-nail. 

Popular preaching is but sheet-lightning. 

Caste: Eagles don't speak to dollars, nor dollars 
to nickels, nor nickels to cents ; but 'tis not the Chris- 
tian style, — it is of and like the world. 

A wicked man said " when he first saw a boiling 
spring he thought hell was boiling over for him, 
and he ran for life to escape." 

A decent, modest, well-bred gentleman will not 
insult nor offend me ; and others cannot. 

As oysters have no pearls without being sick, so 
afflictions often bring out our graces. 

A -pet bear, seeing a fly on his master's nose, 
struck it with his paw, tore the man's face, and 
scared the fly away. So souls are destroyed, rashly. 

A judge said, " the clerk of the legislature was 
ordered to read a fraudulent f bill ' to be engrossed, 
so like Satan that nobody could understand its 
character." 

Hypocrites are like a foolish negro who went to 
hear John Wesley ; and after shouting and rolling 
in the sand a while, learned, to his surprise, that the 



336 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

preacher was not John Wesley, and exclaimed, "I've 
had all my trouble for nothing." How much of such 
now with the colored and white ! 

Infidels , nearing hell, see less and less of danger 
as reprobates, till they fall within. 

Dr. Bethune said "he became more weary in 
reading a service of twenty minutes than in preach- 
ing an hour." True eloquence is easy. 

Dr. Dodds says, " If one can't reason, he is a fool ; 
or does not, is a coward ; or will not, is a bigot ; 
but if he can, dares, and will reason, he is a man." 

They say in Virginia, " her best blood flows in 
negro veins." 

"/ stole off with bad boys," said a prisoner, 
"lounged, swore, smoked, gambled, stole, came to 
this— a fool." 

Goldsmith says, "Never touch novels nor romance." 

Sleep with the head level, let the blood circulate 
freely, and always keep the mouth shut. 

It takes ten thousand shots to kill a soldier ; from 
fifty to seventy-five per cent, die of intemperance or 
want. 

Said an old lady, " the organ in church is an awful 
box of whistles; bad way to spend the Sabbath." 
Yes, when played so as to drown all the voices. 

Love duty, and you can easily do it. 

A desire for knowledge is a sign of immortality. 

Drink water as animals, not rum like "gentlemen." 



VARIETIES. 



337 



One gun in a battery is equal to thirty on ship. 

The Brook Cherith flows from Joshua's pools. 

The Coliseum of Rome held one hundred and 
ten thousand spectators. 

If you wear a watch, watch it, and pocket too. 

Conversation is sweetest when cares are off. 

Ignore caste, and you'll worship like a hero. 

A sister in New York could not remember the 
text three days ; but remembered lent money three 
years. 

"Thou, God, seest me," engraved, converted a 
harlot. 

Ideas and words come in, like chimes of music. 

A crown, of life's hour, excels an age of sin. 

A man three thousand feet ofF seems only one- 
twelfth of an inch high. 

To coin the soul into dollars, and spend all for 
pleasures of time, is infinite folly. 

The Rothschilds have all the sceptres in Europe in 
their coat-pockets — money kings. 

Don't let cost be more than the candle. 

True love increases as life goes down. 

A false hope is like land-marks, lost in mud. 

A druggist lost the sale of his hair-tonic, which 
he extolled highly, by his own bald head. 

" Stowe had no blot." " I'd spend eternity with 
him." 

All glad and nobody hurt, at a narrow escape ! 
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338 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A fly lit on a rebel in church ; he took his fingers- 
from his stopped ears, heard the words, " Take heed 
how you hear," was convicted, and soon converted. 

" Only preached, said nothing to us." — A child. 

An Indian prayed : "January and February. 
Amen." 

The Rothschilds' income is enormous : one thou- 
sand dollars per hour. 

Pillars of a church are apt to be sleepers. 

Providence notices those who notice it. 

A larger ratio of male births is in war-time. 

Kfoeman worthy of notice or their steel. 

The American Bible Society has a new printing- 
press on which an entire copy of the Bible can be 
printed every minute. 

A child of Japan minds parents better than ours. 

Goods well bought are as good as half sold. 

"Fve lost all, except what I've given away." 

The worth of a thing is marked by the want of it. 

They cry with one eye and laugh with the other. 

Itch or ease, pipe or harp, can't a sinner please. 

It is said " Napoleon's pulse beat only forty times a 
minute, instead of seventy or eighty." No wonder 
he needed only four hours' sleep daily ! 

The worst wheel curses the most, as sinners do. 

Big words and adjectives delight a novice. 

What is Ccesar's meat, that he's grown so great? 

Better live happy in God than be like a Dives. 



VARIETIES. 



339 



Live souls can't stand half the stimulus of the dull. 

Wm. Corbett took Tom Paine's bones out of his 
grave, to England, and at last they were thrown 
away. 

True gentlemen do not spit on or in a stove. 

Neighbors' hens laid in the same nest, and the 
children quarreled about dividing three eggs ; so the 
parents took sides and split the church. 

Lord John Russell said " society was like a snake, 
as the tail always moved the head." 

A man, deaf for years, was cured by a gunshot. 

I preached in New Hampshire on sin finding sin- 
ners, and stolen corn and a thimble were soon 
returned. 

To change his mind is man's gift ; an ass can't. 

Life condensed, and we live a century a year. 

Only afraid of one thing : to be, or do, wrong. 

An old lady said, " Dr. Clark, I get all your words.'' 

Dr. James was convicted by one kneeling in 
prayer. 

" When the devil was sick, he would a monk be ; 
but getting well, a devil he would be." 

A zealot said "he was no speaker, but could 
halloo." 

Old Adam , a negro, getting a rabbit, rejoiced, and 
praised it, saying, " Oh, so fat, you'll fry yourself." 
But off skipped the rabbit. Mortified at his loss, 
and then to get comfort or cure, he exclaimed, 



340 PEARLS OF WORLDS, 

" You are not so very fat after all ! Oh, poor as a 
shadow ! " 

A Dutch justice, hearing three witnesses who saw 
the theft, and four who did not, gave an acquittal. 

A Russian can't be changed, but by conversion. 

Writers for newspapers, in the United States, are 
twenty-five thousand. 

Fll make the judge's chair good, to sit in myself. 

Dr. Franklin felt a lack : poetry, music, and wit. 

Uzziahs want ever to " steady the ark of God." 

Eastern streams, like spurious religion, are very 
variable — high, low, bad, or gone down. 

Some birds, like bad men, seeing one of their 
species in trouble, pounce on him and kill him. 

A negro took off his new hat when it rained. 

A gentleman combines humanity, woman's tender- 
ness, with a man's courage and generosity. 

Haffiness, like politeness, is a perfume shed 
upon others, but spreads and returns to the giver. 

Mere excitement, quick or fitful, transient or last- 
ing, is not healthy or profitable. 

Wisdom says, "Be mindful of the past, careful of 
the present, and provident for the future." 

" I'm so deep in the mud," said a traveler, " it will 
cost more to go back than to advance." Just so 
with Bunyan and the lepers. 

They say " more females join the church, because 
they have more suffering and less temptations than 
men ; or are more susceptible to the truth." 



VARIETIES. 



34 1 



Dr. JSfettleton said : " Do all the good you can in 
the world, and boast as little about it as possible." 
Let our farm, shop, store, office, or work, -praise us. 

Philanthropy injures no rival, but blesses all, 
rather than succeed by another's ruin. 

Try to do good, and enter some field neglected. 

" Did you ever see a big vessel and so little in it? " 

A model Christian is a union of good-will, under- 
standing, corresponding life and fruit. 

The king expects every man to do his duty. 

" Never advise an equal, unasked," some say. 

A soul so small, if less, would be no soul 
at all. 

His greatest excellence is that he has no faults ; 
and his greatest fault, that he has no excellences. 

DonH be a lobster, high and dry on the beach till 
a tide rises and swims you off or leaves you to die. 

Wellington said " a victory was the greatest 
tragedy in the world except one — a defeat." 

A captain at sea in a storm said while praying, 
<c if God would only answer him then, he would 
never ask him for anything again." 

Some sermons, of the catfish kind, have big heads 
and small bodies, and swim in muddy water. 

The Bath Springs were first discovered by pigs ; 
Saratoga High Rock Spring, by deer; and the 
City of Rome saved by geese. 

A Mr. Furlong, of Pennsylvania, said " he had 



342 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

a mile of children — eight running sons." Rich 
father ! 

A Christian, without the new birth, would be a 
guinea, but no gold, — Baptism, minus immersion. 

Backsliders, like boat-rowers, look one way and 
row the other. 

"Dad, come out West ; mighty mean men can get 
office here," wrote a boy to his father. 

Young men in New York, beholding the splendid 
shower of stars in the fall of 1867, shouted, "Oh, 
Dr. Cox has exploded ! " 

Some Christians, like the pyramids of Egypt, 
are broad at the base, but taper fast going up. 

The curse of the age : " Fine, morbid sermons." 
What is magniloquence but a mockery, gaudy show 
of speech, without real life or soul, as ice ? But the 
highest glory of our age is our Bible, good pulpits, 
schools, press, liberty, and religion. 

" Good sermon ! " " Yes ; I saw you nodding — 



Here human nature does unfold 
Various lessons, rich as gold : 
Facts and habits, men and manners ; 
Treasures of a world of wonder ! 

O seek true wisdom, first and last; 
So let no gifts, or days, be lost. 
Knowledge is power, all blest for good, 
When consecrated to our God. — Andrews, 





CHAPTER XXVIII. 

SCINTILLATIONS. 

j^UTHER said, "love was the shortest and 
the longest word in divinity." So he felt, 
thought, spoke. 

A dyer's sign : " I live to dye, and dye to live." 

A big woman, not a lady, traveling by the cars, 
was so gross that she occupied four seats. 

A stupid Dutchman, to shoot his offender, put in 
a double charge to make it sure. On firing his gun 
it kicked him over, leaving him prostrate. Then 
rising, and wondering, he exclaimed, " Oh, it went 
off at the wrong end ! " So it is with the wicked. 

A boy out West said "his father was a Christian, 
but did not work at it much." 

A man and wife disputed whether it was a rat or 
mouse that they saw, and quarreled till they got 
divorced. So a mouse kills an elephant. 

A zealot drives the nail so hard as to split the 
board. 

Let the boys try to be men above their fathers. 

It is up-hill in the dark to find God over sin. 

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344 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A girl, reading the Bible, read " fine twinindle " 
instead of "fine twined linen," and was corrected. 
"Oh," said she, "I read well, if I don't read right." 

Some use truth with penurious frugality. 

Many rivers, so small that an ox could drink one 
up, flow on and make the mighty ocean. 

Self-help, with God, is best and cheapest. 

Drops make a mill-pond ; so the machinery goes. 

Don't make a dozen feints to close, to go, and 
then stay. 

Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise — 
like a miser, penny- wise and pound-foolish. 

The hypocrite is like the Paddy's flea : Put your 
hand on him and he is not there. 

Patience ever bore the scolding of his wife, as it 
amused her without hurting him. 

Wit blasts out her jewels from her insides. 

In France only one fourth can write their names 
when married ; of husbands, one fifth can read ; of 
women, only one seventh. 

S. Girard. of Philadelphia, Pa., said, "I'm like 
a galley-slave, occupied, worn out by business, cares, 
and want of sleep." 

The calf plays finely ; will the cow imitate it? 

The child capers ; will the mother dance? 

Pride is up like a rocket, and down like a stick. 

Music soothes the sick and cures the madman. 

Give me Mary's place or John's — Christ's smiles. 



SCINTILLATIONS. 345 

Garrick, the comedian, said "he would give 
five hundred dollars if he could say ? Oh ' like 
Whitefield." 

An infidel cries: "I'm miserable — which way 
shall I fly ? Wherever I fly is hell — myself is hell ! '' 

Emperor Francis Joseph speaks thirteen lan- 
guages ; but the language of " Canaan " is best of 
all. 

Bells on sheep are good to keep wolves or dogs 
off. What if we have a bell rung in the churches? 

Oh, find fault, and enjoy it, if you please ! 

Miss Brooks, to drown a cat, got drowned herself. 

Robert Raikes founded the Sunday-school. 

Acteon was killed by his own dogs ; as we by sin. 

Dr. Johnson called a vulgar fish-woman " an ad- 
jective, a preposition, a conjunction," and shut her 
up. She was badly outdone, puzzled, and wept. 

Women of Athens used to slide down the steep 
sides of Mars HiU> to give them power. 

Christians, like sun-flowers, look to the sun. 

Go with heart, hope, hand, honey, love, to do 
good. 

History \s called "biography, minus the brains." 

Water in our rooms absorbs hourly so much car- 
bonic-acid gas as to be unfit to drink. 

Alexander meant to rest after conquering all. 

Misers prove that happiness is not of wealth. 

A prisoner in Mississippi gave up reading the 



2\6 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

Bible, saying, "he had read it through twenty-nine 
times and received no benefit." Thus sinners read, 
hate, hear, neglect, and waste all, harden, barter, 
and fit their souls for hell. 

A Quaker said to a profane sailor, w I hope thee 
feels better after getting so much nasty stuff out of 
thy mouth." 

A boy's eyes were restored to sight by a burst of 
powerful music. So a man's ears were opened or 
restored to hearing by a cannon-blast. 

Better be with the minority than majority in the 
time of the flood with Old Noah ; or with Lot at 
Sodom ; or the " chosen few," at the Judgment. 

" Proving a will : " An Irish witness said, " I saw 
the deceased sign the will, and life was in him." 
Being cross-examined by lawyer Emmet, he owned 
up that a live fly was put into the mouth of the dead 
man, and his hand then used by another to sign the 
will. 

"Benedict Arnold," the traitor, being accused by 
a publisher of burning his own buildings to get the 
insurance, sued him for libel, and got six pence 
damage. 

A boy, rejected by a bank, being seen to pick up a 
pin in the street, was recalled, apprenticed, and be- 
came a chief banker in Paris. 

The Chinese pay their doctors while they are 
well, but nothing when they are sick. 



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John Randolph, while walking Pennsylvania Av- 
enue, in Washington, D. C, met Aaron Burr, who 
madly exclaimed, " I'll not turn out for a rascal ! " 
"But I will? said Randolph, and sheered by him. 

Instead of " preaching Christ crucified," it was all 
" Sam Smith and himself dignified." 

A half truth is worse than a whole lie. 

Save the young men and we save all. 

The Sultan has seven thousand women, seven 
wives, and one real wife, the sultana. 

A man was forbidden to smoke in a menagerie 
lest he should learn the monkeys to smoke too. 

A -poet says, " A miser's soul would have more 
room for play in a mustard-seed than a frog in Lake 
Erie." 

The ungodly have one sun ; the godly have two. 

A preacher often spoke eight hours in a day. 

The best of men are but men at best. 

A rogue is a good judge how to catch a rogue. 

A difference without a distinction is like splitting a 
hair on the north-west side. 

Morality minus religion is a " dead-reckoning." 
We or the sun can shine, not killing the stars. 

" Here lie the dead, and here the living lie." 

"I wish I had never been born," said Voltaire. 

Malice, like pride or envy, punishes its victim. 

Apostates advance quickstep on a retreat. 

The severest critics never write books ; no time. 



348 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

" Kilkenny cats fought and ate till there was noth- 
ing left of them but two claws and a tail." How 
many wicked fools devour each other ! 

Total depravity is admitted as true in war. 

Monkey-imitators are caught by tar in boots. 

Articulation belongs to man, not to brutes. 

A sailor wanted to go in a gang all by himself. 

Religions'. Mahomedan, Confucian, Christian. 

A pious negro said, "if God bid him to jump 
through a stone wall, he would jump at it, and leave 
it for God to make the hole through it." 

Little men glory over the faults of the good, as 
an owl over the eclipse of the bright sun. 

A minister once apologized for his dry sermon 
on descending the pulpit. "Yes," said the deacon, 
" so dry that it would not fry a gizzard." 

Lack you anything? in faith make your sign. 

"Barely possible," said the engineer. "Then ad- 
vance," said Napoleon, and soon succeeded. 

Christians, like some plants, send out their best 
odors while burning ; but others do not. 

Cows, by nature, turn grain to milk or meat; but 
the distilleries, by a kind of sorcery, change the bread 
of life into rum, ruin, and death. 

Leeches would suck the life-blood ; but by " wise 
providence," skill uses them to save our lives. So 
God overrules all the doings of the wicked. 

A glutton's power is the jawbone of an ass. 



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349 



The devil — unlike some of his tools, condemned or 
mad, leaving the church — sticks by, in or out. 

Filigree piety is like " drugs" to fatten a horse. 

A doting father, being told by the teacher that 
"his son had no capacity for learning," astonished, 
replied, "Then I'll get him one, as I go to Albany." 

Faith shuts her eyes to the world, and walks on. 

Anchor in heaven, not, like ships, in mud or sand. 

Sinners, like a dead fish, swim down-stream. 

He laughs best who laughs heartily and last. 

An Irish boy fell and badly bit his tongue. Get- 
ting up, he cries aloud and rubs his eyes, shouting, 
" Oh, Steve, do you think I'll ever speak again? " 

Let snakes and geese hiss, for they can't speak. 

Luther once said, " The devil hates a good laugh." 

It is more blessed to give than to receive. 

The wisdom of many and the wit of one. 

An old negro said, " whenever he prayed the fat 
turkeys might come to him, his prayer was not an- 
swered. But when he prayed and went after them, 
he got them." 

"Let us hang together," said a patriot, " or we 
shall be hanged separate." How truly wise ! 

Infidels , like all fanatics, build their houses with- 
out foundation or walls, roof first. 

We preach all gratis, as water is free for all ex- 
cept the cost of pipe and tankard. 

A boy offered his kittens for sale. "Are they old 



350 PEARLS OF -WORLDS. 

school or new ! " " Old, sure." " Don't want them." 
Again, in a few days, he offered them as w^^-school 
kittens. "How is all that? You said they were 
0/^-school ! " " Oh, yes, but they have now got 
their eyes open." 

He gives twice or more who quickly gives. 

Better give, or gather, little and oftener. 

A diffident man once prayed, " O God, give me 
a better opinion of myself! " He needed more love. 

Blessed is the cheerful, godly giver. 

A very covetous and niggardly man, having 
heard a severe sermon against himself, waited at the 
door to greet and thank his pastor for his ability and 
faithfulness, saying, " I hope that will do Brother 
Jackson good ! " 

Resolve never to confide or reveal a secret till you 
know your man, or can't keep it yourself. 

Courtesy says, "Never interfere while others are 
talking, or reading, or singing." 

To despite God is useless, absurd, insolent, wicked, 
suicidal — hell. 

If diamonds cut diamonds, beauty, truth, and vir- 
tue can afford to be plain, as " real ladies " can. 

Do as the sun does : look on the bright side. 

y. y. Astor's advice : " Be honest, industrious, 
and never gamble, nor be dilatory." Good, so far ! 

Do your duty ; hew to the line ; make all straight ; 
but let the chips fly as they will. 



SCINTILLA TIONS. 35 1 

Cunning lops her eyes, closes her lips, resting till 
time and chance come for game. 

True greatness is ever great in little things ; or 
observes what smaller minds neglect. 

Beware of half swallowing food or words. 

A boy in a graveyard whistled to keep his cour- 
age up. 

Beware of jumping half-way over a ditch. 

Beware of dogs caught in the fence, when liber- 
ated ; or of interfering between man and wife in 
mutual quarrels ; or bad associates. 

Seek two objects in art : culture and study ; to 
destroy evil or bad habits, and promote good. 

The Scythians shoot arrows against the heavens 
when it thunders. 

Orientals fire guns or cannon in dry times to 
bring rain. 

Look at the past, present, future, and yourself, as 
in a glass, and act wisely. 

&■ judge's record : A river run up from a swamp. 

Our two millions of dogs cost us ten million dol- 
lars yearly. 

A doctor moved near a graveyard, and gave 
notice that it would suit many of his patients. 

Diogenes asked Alexander " to stand out of his 
light." 

A drowning man, in Massachusetts, when saved, 
blamed his rescuer for not saving his hat too. 



352 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

A mountain in labor brought forth a mouse. 

Let a child or kid dance ; how it looks for a 
mother ! 

A queen forbade all except select artists to 
take her picture, but was angry with these, and 
more with the looking-glass. She needed religion. 

Ccesar, having his likeness taken, put his finger 
on the scar to hide it. So the guilty do. 

Living or dying, I want to be found doing duty. 

A negro cheering a poor minister, said, " Never 
mind being poor ; you have got a rich father." 

Kherson fighting a mosquito, struck, fell out of 
bed with the arm broken in two places. 

A girl crying " fire," kept laughing, and no one 
cared ; but when she said, " I always laugh when 
frightened," and cried in earnest, they all sought to 
put out the fire. Manner and all must agree. 

A Scotchman once denounced the fanning-mill 
M as an imposition on God's wind." So, in our early 
revivals, many opposers accused us " of taking the 
work out of God's hands." 

The orator's lightning, not the thunder, strikes. 

A statue is fine and symmetrical ; but how im- 
portant in a man is heart, life, and motion ! 

A lady, convicted of sin, said " she could give up 
all for Christ, except her pack of cards." " Then," 
said a friend, " if they are your idol-gods, you must 
look to them for salvation." 



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I love the Lord, because he first loved me. 

Most curses, like chickens, come home to roost. 

If we do God's will, we shall know his doctrine. 

To keep a man out of mud, robe him well in white. 

They who know God's name will trust in him. 

A fountain on the house-top will supply all below. 
So may our souls be full, to water others. 

"What is genius?" If you have not felt it, I 
can't tell you what it is." So it is with heart-religion. 

A man is guilty of murder by intending or hir- 
ing it done, even if it is not yet accomplished. Just 
so with other sins. God judges the motives. 

A woman had a shilling-purse, but a guinea-heart ; 
then a guinea-purse and a shilling-heart. 

A bird chirped at the mouth of Mohammed's Cave, 
and saved a man hid from passing enemies. 

When God takes a child away, he acts as a wise 
guardian for the good of both child and parent. 

A lady, hearing a young dramatic preacher weep- 
ing over the cross, and making his hearers weep, 
too, by his theatrical display, said "she had never 
been more delighted at the theater." 

Christian character, like a top, stands well while 
it runs, but as soon as it stops, it falls. 

Hogarth pictures Whitefield with " demons com- 
ing out of his mouth, with fire and brimstone at his 
feet." How will God appear to the wicked? 
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354 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

The monarch Satan bids the sinner make a chain 
daily longer, and binds him with it in hell. 

A filthy sin is odious — horrible ; but wash, dress, 
gild, polish, perfume, and name it finely — French 
fashion — and myriads will hail it as a sweet morsel 
or precious gift, saying, It is not sinful after all, but 
innocent — a good pet. So do art, a name, desire, 
and popularity. 

Strive to make this world better than you found 
it; and yourself, day by day, better fitted for 
heaven, while winning souls to Christ. 



Hail, "pearls of worlds," of priceless worth ! 
Jewels of gold, from heaven and earth ! 
Go, " words and wonders " for the times ; 
Preach gospel truth, till Jesus comes. 

O preachers, doctors, lawyers — class ; 
Yea, rich and poor, or colored mass ; 
Use facts or hints — these various kinds ; 
Gain worlds of wisdom for all minds. 

Parents and children, hail for good ! 
Mottoes and maxims — all for food. 
Take, freely use, and give abroad; 
Watch, work, and pray — O praise the Lord ! 

Andrews. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE SOUL'S REST. 




i( Return to thy rest, O my soul ; for the Lord hath dealt bounti- 
fully -with thee." — Ps. cxvi. 7. 

^OD made man in his own image for service, 
rest, and glory ; breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life ; and man became a living soul — an 
emanation from the Word and Spirit of Jehovah. 
After creation, God rested. Adam and angels re- 
posed in God ; and all were happy. Yea, all things 
worked for their good. When Adam had given 
names to all living creatures, God gave him a help- 
meet, and he called her " woman." So Adam and 
Eve were one flesh, united in object and work, con- 
fiding in God and each other. Thus, while remain- 
ing upright, they enjoyed God, providence, and 
tranquillity of soul. But sin and Satan entered. 
Corruption invaded their hearts. Rest departed, 
and they fled to hide. Behold the once innocent 
and happy pair, now guilty, cursed, and driven 
from the garden ! See, also, their posterity over- 
leaping the circle of God's law, and going astray, 

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356 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

as sheep without a shepherd ; uneasy as the troubled 
sea, and battling like Ishmaelites, or seeking rest, 
like Noah's dove without the ark, and finding none. 
Oh, look to Christ, and be saved ! 

The whole world is restless and unsatisfied in sin, 
seeking " something new " to satisfy their innate 
"aching void," or artificial cravings, of the soul. 

God, in wisdom and mercy, has opened a foun- 
tain, a living stream, a living way, of peace, plenty, 
and satisfaction, in Christ ; yea, by the Spirit, 
through faith in his word. All is precious, sure, 
free, to every believer. "Ye are my witnesses," 
saith the Lord. 

Awakened, anxious, and burdened sinners, back- 
sliders, the afflicted, contrite, and the panting Chris- 
tians — all are admonished and invited to come to 
Jesus for rest. " Ho, every one that thirsteth, come 
ye to the waters. The Spirit and the Bride say, 
Come." There is rest for the weary. 

Do not plead, for excuse, your inability, your 
doubts, your unworthiness, or blood-guiltiness ; nor 
limit God's power and grace. Come, ye weary and 
heavy-laden, and learn of Christ, and you shall find 
rest to your soul. The gospel yoke is easy and the 
burden light. 

David lusted, wandered, repented, and returned. 
He was afflicted, reformed, pardoned, and made 
happy. So he thanks God for grace and salvation ; 



THE SOUL'S REST. 357 

hails the sweet rest of his soul, and sings his praises 
to Jehovah. Storms may howl around and ruffle 
the surface of the Christian's soul, but deep down in 
his heart there is feace — peace like a deep river. 
Hope is his sure anchor. 

God has prepared a counterpart for every primi- 
tive desire or inspired feeling. Thus, we have food 
and clothes for the body ; facts and exercise for the 
mind ; precepts and promises for the soul ; duties 
and blessings for a broken heart, panting for a 
" higher life," and aspiring to a calm, attainable, 
heavenly rest. " Thou openest thine hand and satis- 
fiest the desire of every living thing." Trust in the 
Lord ; live and rest in him, and all is ensured. 

Mankind wants something true, sure, satisfactory, 
and permanent amid the vain, false, fluctuating, 
transitory things of earth. Now, here we have it : 
" The word of the Lord endures forever." This is 
the great desideratum of the immortal soul. 

Christians pray, long, and strive for " soul-lib- 
erty," spiritual consecration, and the evidences ; and 
to be filled with the power and graces of the Spirit. 
Well, you may now have righteousness and peace 
like the mighty rivers and the wide ocean-waves. 

In revival meetings, and elsewhere, Christians 
often express a desire for a " holy, higher life ; " and 
to be fully sanctified ; to get forever rid of their cold- 
ness, barrenness, and unbelief; and to be more like 



358 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

the " Master," in mind, heart, and life, caring more 
for Zion and for souls. Now, every one who has 
this hope in him — the gospel hope —"purifies him- 
self, even as God is pure." Look to Christ, and into 
the Bible-glass, till you see light and glory; and 
are changed into Christ's image and perfect stature 
by the Holy Spirit. Here is duty and a privilege ! 

My dear brethren, you may have real, abiding 
peace and composure of mind, serenity and tran- 
quillity of soul, love and fullness of heart, sweet com- 
munion, union, and rest in Jesus. "Perfect love 
casts out fear, torment " — all sin ; and gives us "joy 
unspeakable and full of glory." "The effectual, fer- 
vent prayer of the righteous man avails much." 
Only ask aright — by heart, word, and deed — and 
all is yours. 

True soul-rest and superior Christian attainments 
are not "baseless fabrics of a vision," nor vain as- 
sumptions, nor pharisaic boastings, nor false peace 
or ease in Zion ; nor a glowing frost, galvanized 
wood, or a dead calm ; nor like the reveries of drink, 
opium, or tobacco ; nor vain prate, rant, or fulsome 
egotism ; but the true religion, the verified, genuine 
article, " pure gold," in the sunshine. This great 
spiritual development is proportional, uniform, con- 
sistent in its exercises, dimensions, and bearings. 

This rife experience is attainable in all climes, 
times, or tongues, of enlightened nations. It is not 



THE SOUL'S REST. 



359 



usually of sudden growth or lonely birth ; nor an 
exotic, or a forced, plant or strange flower of some 
moral hot-bed ; but a genuine pearl and jewel from 
the deep, clear waters and the rich mines ; a tree 
of life, ripe age, perennial growth — ever bloom- 
ing and fruiting amid all extremes — physical, 
moral, or religious. 

O blessed rest ! — type of heaven, rooted and 
growing in Christ, nourished by truth, enjoyed by 
experience, developed by the Spirit, good provi- 
dence, faith, and practice ; and consummated in 
heaven ! Hence, the higher our spiritual attain- 
ments are, the more exceedingly sinful will sin, 
self, and Satan appear. Yea, and oftentimes, in- 
deed, new species or phases, when and where least 
suspected. 

Behold, for example, Job, David, Isaiah, and 
Jeremiah ! They saw things in the strong light of 
eternity, as under the burning cross ; and saw and 
felt their sins and vileness accordingly ; and cried 
out for deliverance. 

Even Paul, in his greatness and humility, counted 
himself unworthy and imperfect, yet reaching and 
pressing forward for the prize of the high calling of 
God. What a lesson this would be to some modern, 
carnal, or assumptive -perfectionists ! 

The perfect and sublime rest of faithful pilgrims 
still remains ; but enough is "attainable for our day. 



360 PEARLS OF WORLDS, 

Amid trials, persecutions, and labors in the field, 
God's grace is all-sufficient. Was Christ free from 
burden, grief, tears, or interruptions, while on earth? 
Were the old worthies, apostles, or early Christians 
free from fiery trials and disturbances in their day? 
How, then, can we expect perfect freedom from 
straits and conflicts in our warfare, amid the 
world's agitating and trying elements? But let us 
trust God, aim high, and strive by faith and works, 
and we shall gain commanding, fortified heights 
and invulnerable positions by the Cross. Oh, have 
patience, faith, and perseverance, and everything 
will work for your -present good and your eternal 
rest. The best of Christians are thrice indebted to 
Jesus for paying our debts, giving us promises and 
grace, and the privilege of sharing in the gospel 
work and glory. Truly, " there remains a rest to 
the people of God ; " and we shall have it by faith 
in Christ. But, my brethren, riches, honors, fash- 
ions, pleasures, and powers, do not secure or pro- 
mote the saints' rest. Neither does Arminianism, 
nor mere cold orthodoxy, nor heartless formality, 
nor bodily exercise, nor heated imagination or arro- 
gance or enthusiasm ; but simple, genuine faith in 
Christ, as our all in all. Thus trusting in Jesus, as 
a helpless child does to its mother ; or as the " calm 
and happy boy at sea in a storm, when his father 
was at the helm," — and all is well. 



THE SOULS REST. 361 

Seeking first God's kingdom and glory, we shall 
be kept as the apple of his eye, and safe in the palms 
of God's hand, glorying in the cross, making living 
conquests, pushing on the gospel warfare till we 
plant the triumphant banner of the Cross on the sub- 
lime battlements of perfect, continual, eternal rest. 
Yes, whatever you seek or ask in Christ's name, be- 
lieving, you shall have ; for he is able, ready, and 
willing to fulfill all his promises. Wisdom, power, 
peace, and happiness, you are ever guaranteed; for 
the Comforter is vouchsafed to lead you into all 
truth, and into the full joy, image, and stature of 
Christ. Blessed union, divine heirship ! 

Verily we ought to be growing, burning, happy 
Christians ! Why should any one worry, or fret, or 
get angry, or be avaricious, or envious, amid the 
crosses, provocations, or vanities of this lower world? 
Let us rely on God and his promises ; and, like Paul, 
while "bearing the marks of Jesus," say, by way of 
protest, " let no man henceforth trouble me," nor 
anything else, while I bear Christ's image. Only 
get the Spirit and the mark of the Savior, and all is 
well. You can afford to suffer or be crucified, as 
j'ou know that you are fully insured ; and Heaven 
cannot fail. 

Let go of every weight and all besetting sins — 
those little foxes that destroy the vines : unbelief, 
pride, avarice, sloth, revenge, intemperance, games, 



362 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

fiction, secret crimes, and worldly conformity. And 
let us imitate and obey our Lord. 

With high spiritual attainments, and confirmed, 
increasing rest in Christ, we can preach, pray, or 
sing, with heart and soul, and triumph in our King. 
We can thus keep our bodies, temper, and heart, in 
godly subjection ; and our spirit, life, and character 
unpolluted by the world; yea, and our heart and 
soul in true love, union, communion, and godly liv- 
ing, till Christ shall give us that spiritual, superlative 
rest, and crown us with himself and his elect heroes 
in immortal glory. So let it be, for Christ's sake ! 

Dear brethren, let us enjoy, preach, and recom- 
mend this rest — soul-rest — saint's-rest ! Many 
have already testified by word and deed, and the 
faithful witnesses are daily increasing. Let us take 
courage. 

But, dear soul, will you renounce all sin and re- 
turn to this rest? Oh, give your heart and all to the 
Savior ! and say, " He has dealt bountifully with 
me." Oh, may our faith, hope, prayer, effort, heart, 
and soul rest sweetly in Jehovah ! Amen. 



Sing. " Awake, my soul, in joyful lays, 

And sing thy great Redeemer's praise ; 
He justly claims a song from me ; 
His loving-kindness, O how free ! " 




CHAPTER XXX. 

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. 

" Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; f rove your 
own selves." — 2 Cor. xiii. 5. 

^AUL gives the full and desired proof of being 
in the faith and the gospel work ; and de- 
mands kindred evidences of every Christian 
— of all the church. He is divinely and severely 
kind in his instructions and close examinations, 
wishing his brethren the sublime pleasure of prov- 
ing his apostleship by their own Christian experi- 
ence ; and assuring them of his ardent desire for 
their edification, welfare, and perfection. 

They were his living epistles within his heart, to 
be known and read by all men. Their interests and 
glory were bound up in personal and mutual love. 
As good ministers, we can sympathize with the 
apostle's views, motives, experience, and practice; 
and would obey the word, and imitate his example. 
John warns us of evil spirits and false prophets 
gone forth into the world ; and bids us to try them 
whether they are of God. There is now danger 

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3^4 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

of false teachers, Satan's devices, " liberal " notions, 
superficial experiences, spurious hopes, and vain 
pretensions. Precautionary measures are wise and 
safe. 

By a thorough examination of our positions, sen- 
timents, experiences, and evidences, the good and 
genuine will lose nothing by the severest test, but 
rather gain and improve. So we must " prove all 
things, and hold fast that which is good." The 
Lord help us ! 

I. What are not Christian evidences. 

Mere zeal, devotion, sacrifice, or suffering for any 
professed doctrine or form of religion, is not conclu- 
sive proof of genuine Christian experience and sure 
salvation. 

Wicked Israel, Judas, Jews, sons of Sceva, 
Simon Magus, and others, were manifestly zealous, 
devout, and extravagantly so ; but their zeal was 
not according to knowledge, godliness, or any war- 
rant of success. So they suffered bitter disappoint- 
ment, shame, and woe, in their day of trial. Ro- 
manists, rationalists, Mormons, spiritualists, infidels, 
and the heathen, are enthusiastic and prodigal in 
their sacrifices to their idolatry, will-worship, or 
Christless formality. Their zeal is worthy of a bet- 
ter cause. Let us, then, be admonished and im- 
proved by lessons from their examples. To obey 



CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. 365 

God is infinitely better than selfish, zealous sacri- 
fices. Catholics make pilgrimages to their "sacred 
places ; " Mahometans to Mecca ; the heathen to the 
temple of Lama, or to the Juggernaut; often sacri- 
ficing wealth, virtue, and even life itself. 

See the widows of India casting themselves on the 
" funeral pile " at their husbands' death ! Behold 
the 1,700 deluded fanatics in Russia, who recently 
got into wood houses, set them on fire, and perished 
in the flames, to purchase salvation ! (?) 

I have seen Mussulmans in Egypt, Palestine, and 
on shipboard, bowing to and fro most vehemently, 
striking the floor with their heads each way, praying 
aloud, while sweat and tears rolled down their burn- 
ing faces. 

I have witnessed the Jews at their " wailing-place " 
at the western wall of the " Old Temple " in Jerusa- 
lem, reading, weeping, wailing, and kissing^ the 
wall, thrusting their faces between the stones ; yea, 
crying out in the most dolorous strains for the com- 
ing of the Messiah — the advent of Jesus. Oh, the 
veil is yet on them ! 

Caravans of Greeks go to Jordan yearly, to be 
immersed in Jordan, in their " wrought-out robes" — 
as emblems of their righteousness, for their own sal- 
vation. 

Myriads of Pcdobaftists imitate closely, or re- 
motely, these superstitious devotees, in different 



366 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

countries, making strenuous efforts and fabulous 
sacrifices to save thereby their children's souls and 
their own. But away with all such popish, spuri- 
ous substitutes for true baptism or salvation ! You 
must be born of God. 

Moralists, Neologi'sts, Unitarians, Universalists, 
and Formalists, pay heavy "tithes" and taxes at 
their several shrines, to sustain their will, pride, 
sophistry, pleasure, and superstition. But " they 
have their reward;" yea, all "their good things 
here." 

All gifts, efforts, and sacrifices are vain, without 
love, Christian experience, spiritual motives, and 
obedience. 

Thousands, I fear, are now deceived by wicked 
hearts, false teachers, or deceitful friends ; and by 
the formal, specious, angelic assumptions of the 
devil. Oh, beware of decoying lights, superficial 
experiences, vain practices, and false hopes? 
Though groundless, proofless, Christless, self-right- 
eous, yet fascinating, they would, were it "possi- 
ble, deceive the very elect of God." Sin and error 
have their multifarious, bewitching charms for our 
fallen humanity. But how terrible is the thought of 
being deceived, of being weighed in the gospel bal- 
ances, and of being found wanting ! Of appearing 
at the judgment without the wedding-garment — 
without the religion of Christ ! 



CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. 367 

II. What are Christian evidences. 

Love to God, your brethren, and neighbors, is a 
verified evidence of conversion and salvation. Love 
is god-like, fulfilling the law, keeping the command- 
ments, and working no ill to mankind. Blessed 
religion ! Do you enjoy this divine principle and 
motive power? 

Repentance — a godly sorrow , a confessing and 
forsaking of all sin, and bringing forth fruits meet 
for reformation — is not only corroborative testi- 
mony, but infallible proof of the new birth. This 
is a repentance never to be forgotten or regretted by 
you. 

Believing in God and his word is another proof. 
" If you believe in your heart, confess with your 
mouth," and demonstrate your faith in daily life, 
"you shall be saved." 

Yielding to the Holy Spirit, and getting full of his 
fruits and graces, are good evidences. Upheld by 
the Spirit, and enjoying salvation, you will teach 
transgressors, see sinners converted, and read your 
own hearts, lives, and title clear. You are thus 
led into truth, duty, prayer, and prosperity. 

Confiding entirely, willingly, and practically, to 
Christ, as your God and Savior, is accumulative 
proof. Thus, if you deny self, bear the cross, fol- 
low Christ, testify for the doctrines, ordinances, pre- 
cepts, and the examples, of the Gospel, Jesus will 



^68 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

own you as his blood-washed child. You are his 
"friend if you do what the master commands." 

Wearing the "whole gospel armor" is a manifest 
evidence of a Christian soldier, of wisdom, of vic- 
tory, and of salvation. Therefore, fight for life 
under Christ's banner, the battle of faith and love — 
to destroy sins, and to win souls to Christ; and he 
will show himself, truly, as the Captain of your suc- 
cess and eternal salvation. 

Pleasure and prevalence in prayer is an intuitive 
and obvious evidence of your Christianity. The 
spiritual Christian knows how to pray " the effectual, 
fervent, and availing prayer,; " and to profit much. 
God hears and blesses. 

Growth in grace is substantiating proof. Here 
love, faith, goodness, humility, patience, hope, zeal, 
joy, and gratitude abound. How sweet, and how 
full! 

Entire consecration to God and his cause, of body, 
soul, property, honor, position, and influence, with 
a single eye to glorify God and bless man, is scrip- 
tural evidence of discipleship. 

A new creature, or the putting off the old man and 
putting on the new, is a sure sign of divine heirship. 

The wedding garment, the seamless righteousness 
of Christ, as your character, is all-sufficient. How 
it contrasts with fashionable adornings and worldly 
inventions! Religion, like jewels, can afford to be 



CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. 369 

plain. The church, the bride of Christ, is clothed 
with righteousness, and adorned with holiness, un- 
fading and eternal. 

Running the Christian race indicates our object, 
progress, and home. Thus, striving and looking to 
Jesus ensures you the prize. 

Casting all your cares on the Savior, and sweetly 
resting on the gracious promises, evinces ripe evi- 
dences of a living, gracious union, and a fitness for 
heaven. 

Scriptural views and godly practice indicate }^our 
delight in God's commandments and ordinances, as 
a disciple having the mind and spirit of Christ. 
Thus, with sound doctrines, right motives, and a 
heart and purpose to labor for the conversion of the 
world, and to usher in the Millennium, you give in- 
dubitable evidence of eternal life and salvation ; and 
of receiving at last the welcome plaudit, divine ben- 
ediction, and a starry crown. 

Have you, dear friend, the " indelible marks " and 
sure, everlasting tokens of salvation? If not, repent 
and make your calling and election sure. If your 
evidences are satisfactory, show your burning light; 
thank God, and take courage, and we will at last 
praise God in heaven. 
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CHAPTER XXXI. 

DIRECTIONS TO CONVERTS. 

Lord, -what ivilt thou have me to dof " — Acts ix. 6. 



MAT a conversion, a striking change, a spe- 



cial, sublime interposition of God's glorious, 
miraculous grace ! A prime minister of Satan, a 
tiger among the sheep, now subdued, melted, born 
anew, reformed, humble, obedient as a child, turned 
about, as if by lightning ! No wonder that he 
trembled, fell to the earth, lost his sight under 
Christ's marvelous voice, manifestation, and the 
bright, eclipsing light of God. Hear Saul cry out 
for knowledge and direction, willing immediately to 
obey the Lord ! Amid his surrounding and aston- 
ished friends and eye-witnesses, he is bidden and 
led by the Holy Spirit to Damascus for instruction. 
Under the ministrations of Doctor Ananias, Saul 
received his sight, prayed, was immersed, and grad- 
uated an able preacher, fitted for the gospel work. 
I feel that by the Spirit I have been called specially 
to the work of an evangelist, and have thus pursued 
my calling with marked success, north and south, 

37o 



DIRECTIONS TO CONVERTS. 371 

for nearly half a century. Sublime profession ! 
The highest office committed to man — to preach 
the Cross ! 

Young converts, now permit me, at the age of 
seventy- four, with ripe experience, and under a 
sense of my responsibility, with the wisdom and 
doctrine of the Bible, to impart to you some instruc- 
tions, for your edification, usefulness, and happiness. 

I. What young Christian converts should not do. 

1. They should not habitually compare their past 
lives, convictions, conversion, or evidences with oth- 
ers for justification, assurance, or guidance, to the 
neglect of conscience, the Word and Spirit. Do 
not listen to the devil for a moment, nor doubt God's 
dealings, commands, promises, or the final results. 

2. It has been freely declared by Drs. Joel 
Hawes, Morgan L. Rheese, Deacons Wilbur and 
Colgate, Evangelists, and many other good judges, 
that "protracted-meeting" converts develop, stand, 
and do as well or better than others, in most re- 
spects. Yea, God works within or without, both to 
will and do as he pleases. But, dear disciples, you 
are not to stop, nor to compare, boast, or count the 
victory won, lest Satan decoy and despoil you of 
success. Force, good or bad, is never idle. Oh, 
never neglect your gifts, nor privileges, or go with- 
out faith, prayer, and Jesus ! 

3. Do not rob God, the church, nor any one of 



372 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

that which is their due, like Israel, Ananias and 
Sapphira, or the covetous, lest the windows of heaven 
be shut, your springs get low, and success depart. 
Never give niggardly, grudgingly, nor to be seen 
of men, nor withhold more than is meet, like the 
Israelites. 

4. Never hesitate a moment, nor neglect or 
swerve, when duty plainly calls. Notice young 
Samuel, the converts at Pentecost, and Paul. Do 
not, for your life, listen to Satan, flesh, or the world, 
— like Eve, Samson, or the "poor Pilgrim," — lest 
you fall, get shorn, or blind, and get far off the 
straight road to prosperity, usefulness, and heaven. 

5. Let not falsehood, deception, dishonesty, dis- 
honor, vice, intemperance, or crime of any kind or 
shade of evil enter or permeate your soul, to pervert 
or vitiate your mind, heart, or life, and spoil your 
endowments. Have no fellowship with any secret 
works of darkness, nor be "yoked to unbelievers," 
nor implicated with the ungodly in amusements, 
society, partnership, or interest. "Be not partaker 
of other men's sins." "Avoid even the appearance 
of evil." What concord has Christ, Paul, or a 
Christian, with Belial, idols, or infidels? Satan ever 
exacts the lion's share, and if you do not watch and 
pray, you will suffer loss, disappointment, and pain, 
and grieve Christ and your friends. 

II. What young converts should do. 



DIRECTIONS TO CONVERTS. 373 

1. Keep humble, childlike, Christ-like, Paul-like. 
Lo, the English sky-lark nests low and rises high. 
Do good. Peter's fish had silver in his mouth ; but 
truth, fitly spoken, is far better from your mouth and 
heart when supplemented by money, gifts, and 
offerings from your hands. 

2. Discard every sin; believe, confide, and daily 
consecrate all to Christ, without reserve. Profess, 
testify, and witness before God, the church, and 
world, boldly. Observe the ordinances, Baptism 
and the Supper, duties and privileges, punctually 
and in order, as was done at Pentecost, and by 
"primitive Christians." 

3. Pray, sing, and read the Bible, worshiping 
God. Timely occupy the closet, family altar, con- 
ference meeting, public services, and general duties. 

4. Use what strength, knowledge, and grace you 
have, and thereby gain more, without waiting for 
more to begin with. If you omit present duties, 
grow cold, lose evidence, confidence, and tender- 
ness, till Satan and worldly wisdom come up, whis- 
per, advise, and persuade you to defer or still delay 
till you get worldly dust in your eyes, — then you 
may take up with substitutes or counterfeits. 

5. Put on the whole armor of God; run, fight, 
work, pray, press on, shine, warn, invite, and tri- 
umph. Christ has commissioned us, and will sus- 
tain us, prosper us to the end, and give us the victory 
and crown of n* - -** 



374 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

6. I have thus said much, and felt more. I have 
also written much for others, and for your special 
edification and welfare. Please read my revival 
works for more ample instruction and particular 
directions; "Revival Sermons," "Revival Songs," 
"Living Life," "Travels in Bible Lands," and 
" Youth's Picture Sermons," for your gospel con- 
firmation. Be mightily in earnest; care prayerfully 
for souls ; be ready for any event or crisis in the 
glorious Christian enterprise, field, or race, and 
God will bring you off more than conqueror. 

CONCLUSION. 

i. God's designs are wise and fixed. 

2. Agencies are ever adapted to ends. 

3. His Word and Spirit are our power. 

4. Faithfulness is sure of good results. 

5. Fields are white, and the time is short. 

6. Labor for Christ, and the salvation of souls. 

7. Promises are ample, sure; rewards, great. 

8. Prepare to meet God and the saints. 




CHAPTER XXXII. 



AWAKENING. 



"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake 
out of sleep." — Rom. xiii. n. 

i||HAT spiritual knowledge, and what a bold 
^H^ declaration is this — the text ! An important 
epoch was reached in Paul's day ; and remarkable 
periods have succeeded, and marked the pages of 
history, till the present. A most momentous era is 
now reached, and strong signs of a portentous crisis 
are at hand. The latter-day prophecies are fast 
being fulfilled. Look at the church, the nations, 
and the world ! " Can ye not discern the signs of 
the times?" "The wise shall understand ;" for they 
are spiritually-minded. The wise virgins saw, got 
ready, and entered heaven. The carnally-minded 
and foolish virgins slept on, and awoke too late; the 
Lord came, and the door was shut. 

How is it now with Christians and sinners? Do 
we discern the prophecies, and the signs of the 
times? Are we awake, with our lamps trimmed 
and burning? Or are any of us asleep, and unpre- 

375 



376 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

pared for the coming Bridegroom? Oh, friends, 
examine yourselves. 

Are you spiritually alive, or asleep and dead? 
What are your signs or symptoms? Look and see. 

How many are blind, deaf, dumb, supine, easy, 
dreaming, exposed, and naked ! or somnambulic, 
stumbling, mumbling, incoherent, petulant, prod- 
igal, erring, and perishing ! Oh, they may be ter- 
ribly surprised on being awaked by death, judg- 
ment, or hell torments ! 

Awake now, O sleepers, and call upon God that 
you perish not. " Arise from the dead, and Christ 
shall give you light ; " yes, grace, refuge, welcome, 
and heaven ! 

Dear brethren, are we really spiritually awake? 
How are we, compared with the Bible rule, the old 
worthies, the Apostles, or John the Baptist? or, with 
Jesus Christ, our great divine teacher and example? 

Nay, but how do our lives, zeal, testimony, and 
success compare even with the early reformers, 
preachers, and martyrs? or with modern missiona- 
ries, evangelists, revivalists, or live Christians and 
young converts? Tell me, dear friends, are we 
awake, fully awake to the claims of God, the inter- 
ests of Zion, and souls? 

Is it well with thee, with thy partner, child, friend, 
neighbor? Have you cared for souls, Christ-like, 
according to their nature, cost, worth, capacity, 
influence, destiny? 



AWAKENING. 377 



Are any of us " weighed in the balances and found 
wanting"? If so, then, dear soul, awake, confess, 
and reform, and Christ will forgive your sins, and 
give you light, and peace, and power, and victory. 

Behold, "it is now high time" for all to awake, 
and watch, and work, and to do with their might 
what God bids them do, in love, faith, hope, union, 
with prayer and perseverance. Brethren, we know 
it, we feel it. Let us now mark the signs, and tell 
to all of the night and the day. 

Satan and sin and error have long been and are 
now running riot, as if their days were short. Ini- 
quity, infidelity, and crime, secret or open, are com- 
ing in like a flood. What waves of vice, blood, and 
death are now sweeping over the whole world ! 
"When God's judgments are in the land, the people 
should learn righteousness." See them on every 
hand. What moral and physical desolations abound ! 
How many ministers and churches are languishing, 
or "ready to die." Lo, sinners are wandering and 
perishing. Souls are lost by myriads, and misery 
cries for more victims. "Sin will surely find them 
out." 

"The field is great, and ripe for the harvest." 
Souls must soon be gathered into Christ's garner, or 
be lost — smitten with blast and destruction. The 
storm, or fire, will come. 

But God is yet on the mercy-seat ! Revivals yet 



378 PEARLS OF WORLDS. 

exist and abound, and sinners in great numbers are 
still coming to Christ for salvation. So we are 
abundantly encouraged by the Word, the Spirit, 
and God's providences ; yea, by our experience and 
daily success, and the signs of the times. Let us 
lift up a standard for the Lord, and stand like Mount 
Zion. Behold, our salvation, our Millennium, our 
Heaven so near ! 

Go, " works and wonders," speak thy best ; 

Wake pew and pulpit, worldlings dead ; 
Spoil idol lust and drinking pest ; 

Point sinners to the Savior's blood. 

Take " scintillations " of all worlds, 

Of treasures great and manifold ; 
Go, vitalize, and shower the " pearls," 

Win gems, rich souls, for Jesus' fold. 

Though some may hate, yet many love 

The truths of God, we've often said ; 
His Will assures good homes above, 

For souls redeemed by Jesus' blood. 

O Lord, thy gracious " work revive," 
Our " Temperance, Gospel enterprise." 

Us, thanks, and sermons, now receive ; 
Bless, wash, and crown, for upper skies. 

Save us from vice, games, error, shame ; 

Men, warring nations, red with sin ; 
Till peace and love, from pole and clime, 

By "cross and crown," extol Christ, King ! 

E. A. 





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INDEX 



A bit of Baptist history, 268. 

Acrostic, 27. 

Adam and Eve one flesh, 355. 

Adulterations, 169. 

Adultery, marriage, and di- 
vorce, 97. 

Advice to young ministers, 
70; to freedmen, 122; to the 
young, 133. 

"African Expositor," The, 21, 
22. 

Ages, comparative, 290; vari- 
ous, 292. 

Alexander, Dr., hints to 
preachers, 69. 

Alexander the Great, anec- 
dotes of, 207, 220. 

Altitudes, 297. 

American freedmen, 112-123; 
slavery, 114; seamen, 297. 

Analogies, 255-264. 

Anatomy of human bones, 

2 95- 

Andrews, Emerson, personal 
history, 9-24; birth and par- 
entage, graduation, ordina- 
tion, 9; travels, 10, 16; ship- 
wrecked, early recollections, 
10; conversion, early life, 12; 
his chosen costume, descrip- 
tion of, 15; ministry, pulpit 
preparation, 16; foreign pass- 
port description of, 18. 

Anecdotes, religious, 206-217; 
moral, 218-229; thrilling, 230- 
235; awful, 236-245. 



Auto-descriptive view, 15. 
Average length of life, 295. 
Awakening, 375"378- 
Awful anecdotes, 236-245. 

Bad marriages, 98. 

Baptismal symbol, 268. 

Baptist institutions, 121; his- 
tory, a bit of, 268; codicil, 271. 

Baptists, the, 56. 

Bascom, Dr., advice of, 65. 

Bible, is it true, 42 ; seems 
mysterious, 52; lamp, 81; tes- 
timony, 93 ; propagation of, 

Bible conversion, 87. 
Bible view of dancing, 77. 
Bible law, sin, and penalty, 91. 
Bones, human, anatomy of, 

29.V 
Brain- work, 162. 
Business civility, no. 

Casualties in mines and on 

sea, tobacco and intoxicants 

great cause of, 289. 
Causes of bad marriages and 

divorces, 98. 
Charity, 80. 
Cheerful Christians, 82. 
Children, training of, 163; of 

ministers, 275. 
Choice mottoes, 305-315. 
Christ, profession of, 45 ; our 

Advocate, 82. 

379 



38o 



INDEX. 



Christian evidences, what are 
not, 364; what are, 367. 

Christian reforms, 76; union, 
77; gentleman, 103; etiquette, 
104; railway, 122; triumph, 
265 ; evidences, 363-369. 

Church building, 81 ; reform, 
150; manners, 281; members 
and benevolence, 299. 

Civilization and barbarism 
compared, 301. 

Clear outlook, the, 267. 

Colonization Society, 114. 

Colored pastor, communica- 
tions from, 34. 

Colors in dress, 277. 

Commendations, 25-39. 

Constituents of preaching, 

72. 

Consumption in United States, 
294. 

Conversation, no. 

Conversions, early, 298. 

Converting souls, 76. 

Converts, directions to, 370- 
374 5 J oun g) what should not 
do, 371 ; what do, 373. 

Cost of criminals, of intoxi- 
cants, 287; of tobacco, opium, 
&c, 288. 

Courtesy, professional, in. 

Covenant resolves, 14. 

Curious facts, many, 278. 

Dancing, Bible view of, 77. 

Death-bed repentance, 296. 

Degeneracy, physical, 160. 

Degrees of heat of different 
bodies, 298. 

Differences of opinion among 
Christians, 55. 

Directions to converts, 370. 

Division of a subject, logical, 
285. 

Divisions of an oration, 72. 

Divorce, marriage, and adul- 
tery, 90-102. 

Domestic religion, 87. 

Dress, choice of colors in, 277. 



Drinking items, 246-254. 

Early recollections, 10; con- 
versions, 298. 
Editor's rule, 290. 
Elements of preaching power, 

Elocution, general and par- 
ticular rules, 71. 

Emancipation, 115. 

Emerson Andrews, personal 
history, 9-24. 

Estey Female Seminary, 22. 

Eternity, 202. 

Etiquette, Christian, 104. 

Evangelical Alliance, 9. 

Evening lesson, our, 267. 

Events, religious, 188-197. 

Evidences, Christian, 363- 

369- 
Evils of liquor-selling, 251; of 

wars, 2S8. 
Examples of longevity, 168. 
Exodus, negro, 118. 

Pacts, many curious, 278. 
Faith, 203. 

Farewell for a while, 23. 
Farewell preaching, 285. 
"Father Matthew," 10. 
Faults of the pulpit, 72. 
i'inal awards, 48. 
Food, human, 154. 
Fool's character, 319. 
Four pillars of belief, 274. 
Freedmen's outlook, 118. 
Freemasonry not of the Spir- 
it, 272. 
Fullness of Christ, 79. 

General judgment, 83. 
Gentlemanship, 18. 
Globe, population of the, 302. 
God, eternal, living, 40-49; 

sufficiency in, 83. 
God in the fires, 89. 
Going home (poem), 61. 
Good suggestions, 273. 
Governments, different, 280. 



INDEX. 



3 8l 



Great change, 75 ; commission, 
84. 

Happiness, sources of, 280. 

Harvest- time, 77. 

Health, importance of, 155; 

power of, 156; good advice 

concerning, 160. 
Heat, different degrees of, 298. 
Hell, how to escape, 45. 
Hints to preachers, 69; to 

young husbands, 109; on 

preaching, 283. 
How a smoker got a home, 150. 
Human food, 154; speech on 

the globe, 292. 
Husbands, young, hints to, 

109. 
Hygienic rules, 152-159. 
Hypotheses, 198-205. 

Idiocy, principal cause of, 253. 
Idolatry, 364-366. 
Impolite things, 105. 
Importance of adaptation, 67. 
Impossible things avoided, 

105. 
Incidents, revival, 178-187. 
Infant baptism not of Christ, 

269. 
Infants, causes of deterioration 

in, 167. 
Infidel objections, 50-61. 
Inhabitants of globe, 292. 
Instructive facts, 279. 
Intemperance, effects of, 125, 

Intoxicants, various kinds of, 

134; cost of, 287. 
Intoxicating drinks, why sale 

of, should be prohibited, 132. 
Items, drinking, 246-254. 

Jews, longevity of, 294; num- 
ber of, on globe, 302. 
Jubilee, the world's, 80. 
Judgment, general, 47, 83. 

King James I., verdict against 
use of tobacco, 139. 



Knapp, Elder J., 206, 210. 

Law studies, 298. 

Length of life, increasing, 165. 

Lesson, a, 278. 

Liberty, 201. 

Life, after death, 46; what is, 

154; and health, 154-169; 

average duration of, 166. 
Light and shade, 268, 296. 
Lines on the mother of author, 

19. 
Lisk, Rev. J., on tobacco, 147, 

148. 
" Living Life and Travels," 23' 
Logical division of a subject, 

285. 
Longevity, 164; examples of, 

168; of Jews, 294. 
Lord's day, observance of, by 

different nations, 299. 
Lord's Praver in rhyme, 102. 
Lord's Table, the, for all, 58. 
Luxuries, 300. 

Maine Law, why wanted, 251. 

Man made in God's image, ^^. 

Man's great mistakes, 86. 

Manners, social, 103-111; mar- 
ital, 106-108. 

Marital manners, 106-108. 

Marriage, presaging divorce, 
valid and happy, 92 ; law, and 
responsibility, 95 ; divorce, 
and adultery, 97. 

Marriages with few or no di- 
vorces, 100. 

Marriages, proportions of, to 
population, 292. 

Marriage-analogies, 90. 

Marriage and divorce, 90-102; 
remarks on, 100. 

Martyrs, New Testament, 270. 

Matter of preaching, 62. 

Maxims, 316-328. 

Maxims and preachers, 73, 74. 

Memorial of Mrs. Mercy An- 
drews, 19. 

Merchants' success, 301. 



382 



INDEX. 



Method of preaching, 65. 

Ministers, communications 
from, 38. 

Ministers' sons and daugh- 
ters, 275. 

Ministry of Emerson An- 
drews, 16; of freedmen, 120. 

Miscellany, 265-286. 

Moral anecdotes, 218-229. 

Moravians, the, in Greenland, 
188. 

Mortality in different coun- 
tries compared, 295. 

Mottoes, choice, 305-315. 

Mysteriousness of Bible, 52, 
53- 

National sins, 84. 

Native American, personal de- 
scription of, 294. 

Natural suggestions on mar- 
riage, 99. 

Natural science, 296. 

Negro exodus, 118. 

Negroes, trials of, 116. 

New Testament martyrs, 270. 

Nott, Dr., advice to young 
ministers, 70. 

Novel-reading, cause of in- 
sanity, 279. 

Number of languages spoken 
on the globe, 29. 

Occupations compared, 294. 
Ocean depths, 297. 
Opium, 152 ; cost of, 288. 
Oration, divisions of, 72. 
Original epitaph, 265. 
Our maxim, 20. 

Peace, real, abiding, 358. 
Personal history, 9-24; rules, 

13. 
Pert sayings, 271. 
Physical degeneracy, various 

causes of, 160. 
Pleasures in sin, 89. 
Population of the globe, 302. 
Pores of the skin, 295. 



Preachers, hints to, 69. 

Preachers' views, habits, 
maxims, 73, 74. 

Preaching, various constitu- 
ents of, 72 ; hints on, 283. 

Preaching power, 62-74. 
Preparation to meet God, 48. 
President Lincoln, anecdote 

of, 228. 
Principal cause of idiocy, 253. 
Procrastination, 86. 
Professional courtesy, m. 
Proof-sheet, specimen of a 

corrected, 304. 
Pulpit, faults of, 72 ; wants of, 

285.. 
Pulpit preparation, 16. 
Punishment, everlasting, 48. 
Pure woman's gift, 266. 
Pyramid, largest, size of, 281. 

Rainfall in the United States, 
303. 

Real beauty, 275. 

Rebel war, what it cost, 288. 

Reformation, religious, 78. 

Region, domestic, 87. 

Relief, four pillars of, 274. 

Religion and morality of freed- 
men, 120. 

Religious reformation, 78 ; 
events, 188-197; anecdotes, 
206-217; sects on the globe, 
302. 

Remarks on marriage and di- 
vorce, 100. 

Reminiscences, 278. 

Resolves, covenant, 14. 

Rest, the soul's, 355. 

Revival work, 10; preaching 
method, 67; triumphs, 79; 
occasions, 170-177; incidents, 
178-187. 

"Revival Sermons," 32, 33, 
35, 129. 

Romine, Rev. E. C, testimony 
against use of tobacco, 145. 

Rule, editor's, 290. 



INDEX. 



383 



Salvation, 44. 

Saved, 204. 

Saving the world, 273. 

Sayings, pert, 271. 

Scintillations, 343-354. 

Scotch minister, story of, 193. 

Scripture inspired by God, 43. 

Sexes, the, 274. 

Shaw University, 21, 38. 

Short review, a, 11. 

Signs of the times, 85. 

Simplicity in preaching, 67. 

Sin, pleasures in, 89; rebounds, 
265. 

Sins, national, 84. 

Skeletons of sermons, 75-89. 

Skin, pores of, 295. 

Slave piracy, 113. 

Slavery, American, 114. 

Slavish remains, 117. 

Smoker, how a, got a home, 
150. 

Social manners, 103-111. 

Soul's rest, the, 355.. 

Sources of happiness, 280. 

South Carolina and marriage, 
99. 

Special lessons, 267. 

Specimen of corrected proof- 
sheet, 304. 

Spiritual husbandry, 24. 

Statistics, 287-303. 

Story of Scotch minister, 193. 

Substitute, the, and President 
Lincoln, anecdote of, 228. 

Success of merchants, 301. 

Sufficiency in God, 83. 

Suggestions, good, 273. 

Summer drink, a good, 266. 

Taxes and intemperance, 299. 
Temperance, 124-135. 
Temperatures, 296. 
Tennant, Rev. Wm., three 
days' trance of, 300. 



Testimony against tobacco, 
137-142. 

The Bible lamp, 81. 

The soul's rest, 355. 

Things impolite, 105. 

Thirty reasons why intoxicat- 
ing liquors should not be sold 
as a beverage, 132. 

Thrilling anecdotes, 230-235. 

Times, signs of, 88. 

Tobacco, testimony against, 
137-142; and opium, 136-153; 
habits, 137; cost of, 140,288; 
confession of a doctor con- 
cerning, 143-145 ; Lisk, Rev. 
J., on, 147, 148. 

Training children, 163. 

Trials of negroes, 116. 

True giving, 265; courage, 
hope, 266. 

Trust, 204. 

Varieties, 329-342. 
Various constituents in preach- 
ing, 72 ; kinds of intoxicants, 

?34- 
Vital questions, 40-49; facts, 
291. 

Wars, evils of, 288. 

"Watchman, 88. 

Water, 296 

Webster, Daniel, anecdotes of, 
222-231. 

Who is old, 162. 

Why not saved, 88. 

World's Temperance Conven- 
tion, 9 ; Jubilee, 80. 

Young converts, what should 
not do, 371 ; what do, 373. 

Young husbands, hints to, 
109; ministers, Dr. Nott's ad- 
vice to, 70. 

Young, the, advice to, 133. 



REV. EMERSON ANDREWS' WORKS. 



Pearls of Worlds, or Works and Wonders. By Rev. Emerson 
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This volume is the fruit of the study, observation, and compilation, ex- 
tending over the fifty years of Mr. Andrews' public life. 

Liiving liife. By Rev. Emerson Andrews. 12mo, 336 pages. With 
Steel Portrait. Cloth, gilt, bevelled boards, $1.25; full gilt, $1.50. 

This book is an autobiography of this successful minister, and abounds 
throughout with pointed suggestions and lessons. 

" I have been reading ' Living Life ' with great delight. It is like the author, 
unique, warm, and inspiriting. Would that all American as well as English stu- 
dents in the ministry would read it.'' — Rev, Jabez Burns, D. D., London. 

Revival Sermons. By Rev. Emerson Andrews. 12mo, 336 pages. 
Cloth, gilt, $1.25; full gilt, gilt edges, $1.75. 

This volume contains fifty-four condensed sermons by this widely- 
known revival preacher. 

" The ' Eevival Sermons ' are admirable. The history and writings of such men 
as Mr. Andrews are a precious legacy." — Rev. Howard Malcolm, D. £>., Phila. 

Travels in Bible Lands. By Rev. Emerson Andrews. 16mo, 192 
pages. 17 Illustrations. Cloth, gilt, 80 cts. ; full gilt, $1.00. 

This book contains letters written by Mr. Andrews during one of his 
visits to the Lands of the Bible. Plain talks on religious subjects are in- 
terspersed. The work is suited specially to youthful readers. 

" The reader can imagine himself gazing at the relics and surviving splendors 
of oriental antiquity, on which the traveller and historian love to dwell." — Na- 
tional Monitor, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Youths Picture Sermons. By Rev. Emerson Andrews. 18mo, 128 
pages. 12 Illustrations. Cloth, gilt, 60 cts.; full gilt, 80 cts. 

In this volume Mr. Andrews gives the younger readers valuable advice 
and suggestions, chiefly on religious subjects. 

Revival Songs. By Rev. Emerson Andrews. 18mo, 176 pages. 
Cloth, gilt, 60 cts. ; full gilt, 80 cts. 

This book contains some of the ancient as well as modern hymns. 

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